Easy Prey by Dan Ames

Author:Dan Ames
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Slogan Books

Chapter Nineteen

It took me a few more hours to hit all of the stops on the Dave Ingells cell phone tour, but they were all abandoned lots.

You’d be surprised how many of them there are in Detroit. There are entire city blocks now home to mostly weeds and rubble.

Occasionally, you’ll find a developer brave enough to start putting up some new homes, which then look like movie sets, temporarily placed on a barren studio lot.

I did check them all out, though.

Mostly what I did was scare some rats and even send some pheasant running for more cover. The city of Detroit, with its thousands upon thousands of abandoned city blocks and long grass, was home to a surprising amount of wildlife, not just the human kind.

Hell, there were coyotes in Grosse Pointe. Often times spotted on the Detroit Country Club fairways. I always wondered if they were dressed in goofy golf outfits.

Ellen wasn’t answering her phone, or should I saw she wasn’t answering my calls, so I left a message stating what I’d found, which was basically a big heaping bag o’ nothing.

Retracing my route I went back down to Jefferson and followed that all the way into Grosse Pointe, hooking a left on Cadieux to my office. I parked, climbed the stairs and went inside.

Too early for a beer so I grabbed a Diet Coke and launched the web browser on my computer.

Using the usual method of searching the hell out of Google results, I basically came up empty on Dr. Barry Kemp. Oh, there were the usual anonymous doctor recommendations and reviews, most of them positive. Kemp had at various times donated money to certain charities, which was well-publicized.

It was all smoke and mirrors.

I wanted to find out the truth regarding the real Dr. Barry Kemp.

Starting with his name.

Was Barry really his full name? Or was it short for something? Barack Obama had been called Barry when he was young.

Maybe Barry Kemp had been called something different.

I tried Brent Kemp, Bart Kemp and in the process, I discovered a link mentioning Bertram Kemp.

It caught my eye.

Not because it was a strange name, but mainly because it was in reference to a bodybuilding competition.

The link provided almost no information, so this time I Googled ‘Bertram Kemp’ and quite a few more entries populated my screen. There were the drunk and disorderlies my sister, Ellen, had mentioned, as well as bodybuilding forum mentions and a few links to dating/hookup websites.

Barry was Bertram.

Did Ellen already know this? If so, why hadn’t she shared that information with me? I would follow up with her later.

In the meantime, I figured that while Barry Kemp might not agree to meet with me, I had a feeling Bertram would be more receptive.

Probably my greatest attribute that qualified me for being a good private investigator was the fact that I simply loved annoying the hell out of people. It brought me great mirth and personal satisfaction.

So I gleefully called back Kemp’s office and even got the same stubborn phone lady to talk to me.

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