Corpses Say The Darndest Things (Nod Blake Mysteries Book 1) by Doug Lamoreux

Author:Doug Lamoreux [Lamoreux, Doug]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gumshoe - A Next Chapter Imprint
Published: 2013-11-12T05:00:00+00:00

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Finding that area of town was one thing (I'd taken my Jaguar this time, as opposed to Willie's folly, and was on Market Street in under thirty minutes). Finding the right house was something else. It was a neighborhood of faded-blue collar workers, the poor, the unemployed, and the uneducated; so run down the For Rent signs looked like ransom notes. (Come to think of it, it sounded like a subdivision for private detectives.) It was not unheard of for the residents, when they moved, to pull the numbers off their houses and take their addresses with them. Many featured no numbers at all. Still, I can count and do a little math and, through the process of elimination, I managed to locate 826. It was a small two-story sitting liked a tilted crown, above two moderate sets of cracked concrete stairs, on a dirt berm to the right. I pulled to the curb short of the house by several car lengths, on the opposite side, and climbed out. I started across the street, straining in the dim light for any sign of life behind the Riazs' windows. The place was as black as a tomb.

So intent was I on the residence, I paid no attention to the street. That indifference would, over the next five seconds, be the stage upon which I performed a one act play called Failure. I probably heard, but failed to notice, the car's engine starting. I failed to see the vehicle dart from the deep shadows down the street with its lights off. I failed to see it racing toward me. And, though the driver snapped the headlights on in the instant before the curtain came down, I failed to recognize the danger. The car hit me with the left side bumper and headlight. My feet left the road. I rolled up over the front quarter panel, hit the windshield, and I went airborne.

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