She hadn't seen anything, just heard a bike roar away. She was positive about that. It hadn't just driven by, it had roared away. I thanked her and left her with Fred while I went back outside to where the OPP detectives were watching the body being loaded into McKenney's hearse. I waited until t...
Instead he went back to her and leaned over, close to her ear, and said loudly, 'Can you hear me?' He repeated it a couple of times, then glanced up at me and said, 'I don't think she's conscious,' and to her, 'I'm going to take a sample of your blood to test for drugs. You'll feel a little jab.'...
Instead of owning birds, Gallagher explained, they were just plain folks, hiring as they needed them. Which meant that they did business with Olympia Lift Corporation, a helicopter company up at the big motel a further five miles east. When we arrived there was only one chopper at home, on a fla...
But this whole thing is unbelievable. Guys like Manatelli don’t blow themselves away.” “I didn’t kill him but somebody else did. I spoke to him before I came back here. He was fat and sassy then. He wasn’t planning suicide.” Doug stood up, pacing up and down in front of the TV which was still pla...
In the meantime Wing Lok had been treated for a broken tibia and collarbone and was not likely to harm anybody new for a couple of months. I had also been treated to a torrent of verbal abuse from a large Jamaican nurse who had called the department to protest my brutality. On the face of it she ...
Bundled up as I was in a parka and skidoo boots over my regular indoor uniform, I could not move fast and it took me thirty yards to catch up with her. I had to tackle her and drag her down like a rugby player. She screamed and fought, but I tore my parka off and bundled it around her and suddenl...
It's not a pretty town, but it's prosperous, as mid-north Ontario towns go. There's a military base close by, and the town has a good sand beach on the north shore of Lake Nipissing, which is the size of a small sea. Now, in late August, the holidaymakers were everywhere, happily storing up sunsh...
Then, careful not to touch the interior or top of the police boat, I reached in for the bowline coiled on the front seat. I made it fast to my own boat and turned away, heading for the nearest place I could get help, the lock at the north end. As I drove I checked each way for landmarks. It seeme...