Bombshell (Devlin Haskell 4) by Mike Faricy Read Free Book Online Page A

incident involving an English roller derby team, the Hastings Hustlers, they…”
    “Bunch of fine looking ladies you ask me. You get to talk with any of ‘ em?”
    “Yes, as a matter of fact, I spoke with some of them as recently as last night, we’re interested…”
    “Bunch of little hotties and when they talk, like to take all of ‘em home, ‘cept the wife wouldn’t be too happy with that.”
    “Yeah, who could blame her, anyway, last night…”
    “Yeah, saw something about that come across here. You’re up there in St. Paul , right?”
    “That’s correct, see I wanted to ask a couple of questions regarding the envelope…”
    “Yeah, some head case up there attack ed one of those hot little girls? Listen you need any help, couple of us be on the next plan e get that action solved real quick. Then maybe spend a little time with the girls, you know just to…”
    “That’s very considerate of you, Detective, but I think the media sort of blew that s tory out of proportion, see the individual they …”
    “Little girl barely a hundred pounds gets herself attacked by some jackass, like to cut more than a finger off that dude, you catch my drift. See how tough he is after I get through with him.”
    “We’ll keep it in mind. Now about that envelope taped to the door of the bus.”
    Once w e established he was available to spend time with a room full of sexy English girls Kingston Quinn didn’t have a lot more to offer.
    “Waiting on the analysis reports to come back. Not sure if you got budget cuts happening up there , but we’re dealing wi th that problem in every department , not to mention one or two more serious issues, you catch my drift.”
    “I do, unfortunately, any guess when you might see a report, we talking another week, two?”
    “No more like four to six months.”
    “Four to sixth months, ” I half shouted.
    “No one ’ s called in to say they’re missing a finger. We can do some cross referencing , but it would only be for the greater Denver area. We aren’t hooked into other departments around the state, let alone the rest of the country.”
    “Any one call the Feds?”
    “The FBI? On a finger? That’s what we need, a bunch of suits coming in here and scre wing up the three thousand plus ongoing investigations so we can see who taped a finger to the door o f a bus . Not sure how you guys work up there, but we like to stay as far away as possible from those folks. ”
    “Any guesses?”
    “You mean who taped the damn thing to the door?”
    “Yeah?”
    “Some j ackass, just like the jackass attacked that little girl up there last night. My guess, check him out, he certainly sounded stupid enough.”
    “Thanks, we’re doing that,” I said.
    “Look, I get a chance I’ll make a call, see if they got any thing, but with the budget cuts and all…”
    “Anything you can do would be appreciated.”
    Things didn’t seem to go a whole lot better in Chicago . I spoke to a Sergeant Anthony Howe , he had a decided south side Chicago accent .
    “ St. Paul , hunh, something about that sitting on my desk when I came in this morning. You guys nail that fla ke been sending fingers to them English broads?”
    “We ’ re working on it, that’s what I wanted to talk to you about.”
    “You ask me , it’s that piece of shit attacked one of those girls up there last night. Let me question the son-of-a-bitch for about five minutes, I’ll get you answers, the answers ya want. Still got the bastard locked up ? O r did he get all lawyered up and he’s out on the street? Probably casing some grade school as we speak. I tell you the court system in…”
    “Sergeant Ho we, did you process that finger, the one that was sent to the Hastings Hustler s ?”
    “Yeah, in a manner of speaking.”
    “Manner of speaking?”
    “I don ’t know how things are up there maybe you don’t have a lot of scum bags like we do. With all the bad apples we got down here, s ome guy mails a finger,