The Willie Klump MEGAPACK® by Joe Archibald

The Willie Klump MEGAPACK® by Joe Archibald

Author:Joe Archibald [Archibald, Joe]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: mystery, detective, comedy, hardboiled, private detective
ISBN: 9781479428083
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2017-08-07T16:00:00+00:00


way to a big empty lot at a Hunert an’ Twenty-sixth Street where somebody found a corpse. You can go, too.”

“You think I wouldn’t follow you?” Willie sniffed, and gave himself a last faceful of corned beef. “You would ring me in on the rub-out of some stewbum that don’t mean nothin’.”

Less than half an hour later, Willie was with half a dozen other cops appraising the remains of a citizen who was clad in very nice haberdashery. The rigor mortis expert judged that the unfortunate character had been defunct for close to seventeen hours, and stated that he had been shooed off for keeps by a Betsy of approximately thirty- eight caliber.

“He ain’t no bum,” Kelly said, as he frisked the remains. “The criminal person or persons emptied his pockets of all identification. Awright, take flash pitchers of the scene, men.”

The deceased was lying prone and when he was turned over, Kelly found the watch.

“An’ ol’ model gold turnip,” he said. “The guy must of carried it fer sedimental reasons as he also had a wristwatch as you can see by the stripe on his wrist. A huntin’ case watch. Could be an inscription inside it. Leave me a loan of your penknife, Willie.”

Kelly got the watch open and something fell out of it and landed at his feet. A small sheet of thin paper folded twice. He picked it up and had a cop center a flash on it.

“Just a mush note,” he said. “Don’t’

mean nothin’ as it is signed only by

‘Sugarface.’ Lissen. ‘Dear loover buy. Sure, I’m still that way oover my big hunk of manpower. What makes yuyu think different? Why, natch, we have a date fer Wednesday at eight yoocluck. Loots of loove.’ What kind of baby talk is that, huh?”

“Or is it you can’t read,” Willie said. “Well, there may be prints of felons on file on that billy duke, so don’t throw it away, Kelly. The deceased was a handsome gee in a sinister sort of way, huh? Was toted to this lot in a jaloppy, as look at the lint on his worsted suit from a sedan Smyrna.”



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