Monday and the Murdered Man (Fifth World Book 1)
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Monday and the Counterfeit Corpse was released in He is currently working on the next Monday adventure, another Verdigris interactive novel, and various live action role playing games. Are you an author? Help us improve our Author Pages by updating your bibliography and submitting a new or current image and biography.
In a sprawling urban landscape where magic is as common as technology, Zack Monday is a hard-working private detective, street-smart, resourceful, and. Monday and the Murdered Man has 28 ratings and 9 reviews. A good first novel and apparently the start of a series being "Book One of the Fifth World Series".
Learn more at Author Central. Popularity Popularity Featured Price: Low to High Price: High to Low Avg. Available for download now. Available to ship in days. Monday and the Murdered Man: A Tale of the 5th World Nov 30, Again, this wasn't relevant to the case in any way, but I was stalling for time, after all. I snuck a quick glance around the room again.
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If my last invitee didn't show up soon, someone's temper was going to blow and then things would get harder. You promised us answers! Why am I always right when I least want to be?
He was well over six feet tall and hugely overweight. His great bald dome of a head gleamed brightly in the large room's witchlamps and a great shaggy sprawl of red beard covered the lower half of his face and spilled down his chest. He wore a New Jerusalem Police Department badge on his shirt and a tie that defied all taste and decorum.
I was just telling Mr. Crane here that you were on your way. Show me what you want me to see, but remember that you owe me big time for this. I don't make house calls. Mandrake cared and that was worth a whole lot in my book. As you all know, Mrs. Stanhope-Crane hired me to determine who was behind the murder of her husband, Malcolm Howard, and also why he was murdered. I have asked you all to be here today because I have the answers to those questions and more. Some of them looked me in the eyes, but others glanced away. It was hard to say for certain.
I let the moment linger. The butler shifted slightly, moving into a stance that would allow him to move quickly, or possibly start a fight. I noted that and moved on. All of the evidence that I've found shows nothing but honest motivations. I believe that your husband truly loved you and wanted to spend the rest of your lives together. I am truly sorry.
The true killer planted all of that evidence to throw investigators off the track. And it worked, at least for a little while. Much like I've been doing for some time now.
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Jasper, have your men found it yet? The door opened once again and a uniformed police officer came in carrying a two-foot tall statuette of a crying woman. It was nicely sculpted, it looked pretty valuable. It was also the motive for Malcolm Howard's murder. In fact, it's one of nearly a dozen counterfeits which have been moving through New Jerusalem for the last month. Unless I missed my guess — and I didn't — he was about to make his move. So it was time for me to make mine.
Twelve sets of eyes swept the room, looking for the source of the snarl. It was the cook and he had produced a handgun from somewhere and he was pointing it right at Belinda Stanhope-Crane.
Mandrake and the uniformed officer were too far away to do anything, I was even further away and if I moved at all the crooked cook would surely shoot. Fortunately, I had planned ahead and had a shill in the crowd. From behind the cook and well out of his field of view, a massive sledgehammer of a fist crashed into his head.
The gun dropped from his suddenly slackened fist and clunked to the floor loudly, followed by the cook's unconscious body a moment later. I definitely never wanted to be on the business end of those enormous mitts. His voice was so deep I could feel it in my chest, no fully human throat would ever produce a voice like that.
Baxter Kline was my partner. Technically he was my employee, but that only went so far as me paying him. He was a great partner and he added a lot of value to the firm. When it came to actually following orders, he wasn't so great. But that's okay as he frequently tells me that I'm not so great as a boss either. We had infiltrated Baxter into the household a few weeks ago and today it had paid off. When all of this was over, I was going to have to let him go. I was so busy running Zack's errands, I barely had any time for you at all. Haul the jerkhole in.
Right about then the room exploded into a dozen different voices asking a hundred different questions. I flipped my notebook open and smiled. About an hour later everyone was finally satisfied with my answers, or at the very least they were as satisfied as they were ever likely to get.
Stanhope-Crane and I shook hands, she gave me a fat bonus check — which I had totally earned, thank you very much, and we said our good-byes. Mandrake and Officer Kovacks had long since left with their collar, and everyone else had something important or at least distracting that needed doing. Baxter and I left together in a shared cab. Sure we had made a good profit on this case, but there was no sense in throwing away perfectly good money. We rode in silence for a time while I deconstructed recent events.
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I had expected things to go worse, frankly. The cook was a career criminal; he had been part of an underground fighting ring for a while. I had expected him to give Bax a run for his money in the thug department. Don't get me wrong, Baxter Kline is a damn fine thug, a true gentleman, and quite possibly the heir to the Goblin Throne.
I realized Baxter was staring at me. Can you tell me what purpose would be served by hurting her with a meaningless truth? It's bad enough she lost her husband.
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