The Untimely Death Box Set by James Kipling

Author:James Kipling [Kipling, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: https://www.facebook.com/SergeyGoncharenko
Published: 2015-09-07T04:00:00+00:00

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Detective Andre Russell—known more widely as Damianos, the tamer—was initially happy to hear his aunt's voice on the phone. It was a nice to hear a friendly and innocent voice, to step away, even for a moment, from the nickname that had been attributed to his efficient and relentless detective work.

Damianos listened to his aunt's story with amusement at first. The old dear had obviously been watching way too many horror movies when she wasn't watching birds out of her friends' gardens. It wasn't until she mentioned that she knew the “scarecrow”, that Damianos realized it was more than just an old woman's imagination playing tricks.

“You knew him?” Damianos straightened in his chair.

“Yes, yes, Lamont Duffield!” The name meant nothing to Damianos but the fact she knew him definitely meant something. “Poor young man, poor young man. Stabbed with a pitchfork. I've never seen anything like it!” She said, her voice hoarse with fear. “It was like he might as well have been made of straw, the way it went through him! Does it always look like that, Andre!?”

Damianos couldn't stand to hear his aunt in such terror. Growing up, she had always seemed so calm and happy with life, a great comfort to a young boy. It was always nice having her around during the holidays. It wasn't right that a woman who had always been so carefree now seemed to have an entire mountain on her back.

“Listen, Aunt Rose. I'm on my way. Where is the field?” Damianos asked.

When she finally composed herself long enough to give him a general location, Damianos did his best to keep her calm.

“Aunt Rose—Rose—please, listen. I need you to take your friend and get home. Pour yourself a glass of wine, or a cup of tea, anything to help relax. I know that seems impossible right now but it's the only thing you can do for now. Everything will be handled. Just get home and keep as calm as possible.” Damianos had never expected to have to comfort his aunt. How times had changed from when she'd help tuck him in to bed. “I'll come and see you later, I promise.”

Just as Damianos hung up the phone, his partner John Avers, came storming up, well dressed and looking as rigid as ever. His face was especially stern which was never a good sign. It meant that he was focused on something, usually a case.

“We have just received a call from someone saying that there's a dead person strung up like a scarecrow in a cornfield.”

Damianos couldn't believe his partner's words.

“Really?” Damianos peered down at his phone. “I just got a call from my aunt...with a very similar story.”

Avers had his notepad out and at the ready before Damianos even had a chance to proceed. He recounted what his aunt had told him and John readily transferred the story into writing. Once he had written everything down, they compared those notes with the once John had taken when he had received the call. They were remarkably similar, and even in close vicinity to one another.

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