Dead Extra by Sean Carswell

Author:Sean Carswell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Prospect Park Books
Published: 2018-08-01T16:00:00+00:00

This break was enough for him to pull it together a bit. He went back inside, toweled off, changed into a clean shirt, combed his hair, and sat again in his armchair by the phone.

“What do you know, Jack?” he asked himself. Sometimes speaking aloud, even if only to himself, helped.

“You know big shit is happening here. It’s big enough to bury Wilma’s murder and hire out yours. You know that you don’t know enough to be careful. You know there’s a weird little motor court in Oxnard that could be involved but probably isn’t. You know Hammond won’t make with the information you need.”

Jack took another drag and lingered in the pause. He answered his own answer. “In other words, you don’t know anything.”

He shrugged. As lousy a detective as he was, he felt pretty confident that it would be smarter to report this murder than to hide it. He picked up the phone and rang the York station. Homicide. As luck would have it, Detective Winston picked up the call.

“Hey, Frenchy. It’s Jack Chesley.”

“Jackie. I heard you were among the living.”

“I am,” Jack said. “But I got a problem with someone who isn’t. He’s lying here in my living room, bleeding all over the floor.”

“Dead, you say?”

“From here on out.”

“Murdered.”

“Shot dead, anyway.”

“Know who did it?”

“Yeah,” Jack said. “I did it.”

Winston laughed. “All right, kid. I’ll be right over.”

“I’m at the old man’s house,” Jack said. “On the corner of Meridian and Avenue 52.”

“I know where you are.”

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