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Lee Hacklyn Private Investigator In Death Radio: Lee Hacklyn, #1
Lee Hacklyn Private Investigator In Death Radio: Lee Hacklyn, #1
Lee Hacklyn Private Investigator In Death Radio: Lee Hacklyn, #1
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New York City.  1974.

 

Lee is hired to investigate the murder of radio actor Luis Cruz, who played Kayo on The Silver Stinger radio show from the 1940s.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherJohn Leister
Release dateJun 7, 2024
ISBN9798227015204
Lee Hacklyn Private Investigator In Death Radio: Lee Hacklyn, #1

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    Lee Hacklyn Private Investigator In Death Radio - John Leister

    CHAPTER ONE

    New York City.  1974.

    Clack, clack, clack.

    I was at my local Good Brews in Queens on a Sunday morning, nursing a hangover with plenty of water—my liver was grateful—coffee, served in a ceramic cup, there were only three options when it came to coffee, back in the day, millennials, other than black, just like television channels and flavors of ice cream and they were sugar, cream or cream and sugar.

    Multiple choices are nice, but three really is a magic number.

    I was munching away on a bran muffin.

    The things some of us tend to take for granted, like regularity.

    I was considering the possibility that I might be alone on my twenty-fifty birthday.

    My mother, she who birthed me, well, obviously, Alison Hacklyn, my sister, two years older than me, Ann, her husband, Geoff and their daughter, my niece, Gretchen, were on a European vacation.  I wasn’t invited.

    Mom helpfully informed me, America is the only country in the world that allows murder, dear.

    Mom wasn’t much of a history nut.

    Clack, clack, clack.

    The man sitting next to me was seemingly oblivious to the disruption he was causing.  Staff and customer alike gave him ugly glares, but nobody said anything.

    Maybe I woke up in Canada this morning, eh?

    He had greasy hair and it was salted with dandruff.  The heartbreak of psoriasis.  Poor guy.  The lenses in his prescription glasses rendered his eyes cartoonishly large.  His skin was pale, his mustache was

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