Instrument of Justice

By Russ Crossley

Meet John "Jazz" Stiletto. It's 1950 Los Angeles on the eve of the Korean conflict when a would be starlet is found murdered.
Military Polceman, Jazz Stiletto, is ordered to assist the LAPD iinvestigation.

Jazz soon discovers a dark conspiracy that requires a man of his special talents.

A tale where we meet a man who walks to his own sense of justice.

This story was originally published by Over My Dead Body on-line Mystery Magazine. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: 53rd Street Publishing
• Release date: Aug 25, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386887492

Russ Crossley

International selling author, Russ Crossley writes science fiction and fantasy, and mystery/suspense under the name R.G. Crossley. His latest science fiction satire set in the far future, Revenge of the Lushites, is a sequel to Attack of the Lushites released in 2011. The latest title in the series was released in the fall of 2013. Both titles are available in e-book and trade paperback. He has sold several short stories that have appeared in anthologies from various publishers including; WMG Publishing, Pocket Books, and St. Martins Press. He is a member of SF Canada and is past president of the Greater Vancouver Chapter of Romance Writers of America. He is also an alumni of the Oregon Coast Professional Fiction Writers Master Class taught by award winning author/editors, Kristine Katherine Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith. Feel free to contact him on Facebook, Twitter, or his website http:www.russcrossley.com.  He loves to hear from readers  

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Instrument of Justice

Instrument of Justice

A Jazz Stiletto Mystery

Russ Crossley

53rd Street Publishing

Instrument of Justice

A Jazz Stiletto Mystery

Russ Crossley

Published by 53rd Street Publishing

Copyright 2014 Russ Crossley

All rights reserved

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Cover designed by R. Edgewood

Cover design and layout copyright 2017 by 53rd Street Publishing

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This is a work of fiction. Any similarities to persons living or dead are purely coincidental.

Instrument of Justice

A Jazz Stiletto Mystery

Jazz kicked aside a large rat with his gleaming black GI shoe as he stepped through the doorway of apartment 3B following Detective Sergeant Tompkins. The Hollywood Hills walk up had been the most recent abode of one Mary Higginbottom (aka Mimi Williams) wantabe movie starlet .

The iron smell of blood mingled with dust and mold to assault his senses as he stood over the naked body of Miss Higginbottom stretched out face down, arms and legs askew, on the threadbare maroon colored carpet. The apartment around him contained a few sticks of furniture; a sagging forest green sofa, a cheap plywood coffee table with two matching end tables at either end of the faded couch and two paintings of flowers adorned the otherwise bare walls. The kitchen at the far end of the room had an icebox and a two-burner hotplate. The pale green laminate counters were covered with