Lee Hacklyn, Private Investigator in Who Killed Captain Security Guard?: Lee Hacklyn, #1

By John Leister

New York City.  1973.\

Lee is hired by television producers Gil and Myrna Hartley to

investigate the murder of actor Steve Coughlin, who played

the title character on a daily children's show called The

Adventures of Captain Security Guard.

• Language: English
• Publisher: John Leister
• Release date: Sep 17, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223897187

Book preview

New York City.  1973.

CHAPTER ONE

Oh, my God, Lee!  This is so exciting!

I haven’t been this excited since that night when I was twelve and found my Dad’s Playboy collection under my parent’s bed, I wanted to say, but didn’t.

Oh, Dad!

Did you ever once consider who Mom might have felt about that?

We were at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Outside, it was hotter than Stella Stevens.

Inside, it was colder than a crème soda Slurpee.

We were watching something called a hockey game.

My date was a twenty-something interior decorator named Tracy Tomita.

She was charming and drop dead beautiful.

When I told my mother about her, she hit me with this startling revelation:  The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.

Holy Moley!

I guess I was sick that day the other kids learned that in History class.

When an encyclopedia salesman tried to ply his trade with me, one day at my office, I politely told him that, Sorry, don’t need it.  Anything I need to know?  All I have to do is call my Mom.

She was the internet before there was the internet.

If I understood the concept correctly, six men, wearing pajamas, comprised the home team, in this case, the New York Lions.

Another six men, wearing different colored pajamas, comprised the away team, in this case, the Vancouver Canadians, which seemed like a willfully dull name to me.

Justice League?  Avengers?  Hell, no!  Let’s call ourselves The Super-Powered People, um, Group!

Tonight marked the debut of a new hockey league, equally-creatively named, "The