The Wallis Jones Series Box Set - Volume Two: Books Four thru Six by Carr Martha

Author:Carr, Martha [Carr, Martha]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: MRC Publishing
Published: 2017-06-16T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

“Who’s maintaining these cars?” Detective Arnold Biggs turned on the windshield wipers on the unmarked patrol car as a short spray of fluid reached halfway up the glass on the left side. The right side gave off only a short spritz. He tried again before slapping his hand hard on the top of the dashboard in frustration. His frustration was running along at a steady hum ever since they heard about the assassination of the President, and the killer, Rodney Parrish. A name they were both familiar with and were not entirely surprised had finally broken through to a national storyline.

His partner, Detective Jason Busby, just Buster for short, watched the dust cloud that rose up and let out a snort of cynical laughter. He was no happier about what had happened but was more resigned to not being able to fix some things. He tried to stick to what he could do something about and anything to do with the mess in Washington was beyond his purview.

“I told you, bring your own, he said, reaching under the seat for a bottle of Windex. “Here, it’s your turn,” said the older detective.

It was always Detective Biggs turn but he didn’t mind. Seniority had its privileges even if he wasn’t so young anymore, either. They were both detectives in the City of Richmond, usually running down homicides. But they managed on a pretty regular basis to annoy their Captain and often found themselves running errands for the Captain instead.

Detective Biggs was convinced it was to keep them away from some other part of town where there was something going down the Captain didn’t want them to see.

Richmond was like any other city and had its share of what some people out in the far suburbs of the West End might call illegal activities like the combinating rooms where a body could still get a small loan to place a two-dollar bet. Combinating was a useful noun in Richmond-speak.

Anyone who was born and raised within the city limits called combinating good business, which it was for some like Mac, who ran the hall, and for all the local politicians and cops who got to place a bet for free on Mondays. Long-time residents who had first walked in as small children, holding their daddy’s hand, saw it all as harmless fun. It was part of old Richmond culture, after all.

That was until Rodney Parrish showed up and became one of Mac’s best bag men, along with his side penchant for burglary. At first he had seemed like a godsend to a few particular prominent politicians or well-connected people who occasionally needed someone who could break in without leaving a trace.

Rodney could come and go so smoothly people often didn’t believe they’d been robbed and blamed themselves for misplacing their mother’s diamond ring or were convinced it was their teenager who had taken the money. It wasn’t unheard of to even have him plant something to help an officer make a case.

Many

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