Terran Times 18 - Emerald Envisage - Plot & Excerpts
Llewellyn I got my first case after I had been on island, as we say in Hawaii, for eleven hours and five minutes on a sultry Friday morning. I was rushing out of my apartment to go to an office supply store sale. My neighbor, a nice mainland woman who’d moved to paradise and realized to afford it she’d have to work two jobs and skip all the luxuries, stopped me. She told me this big, long story saying this was why she resented somebody stealing her newspaper every morning.“It’s the only little extra I’ve allowed myself,” she huffed. “But I’m not a detective.” I tried edging toward my car.“You’re a forensic something or other. I want you to get to the bottom of it.” “I’m a forensic accountant.”“Even better. You appreciate the value of a hard-earned dime.” She slipped a folded bill into the palm of my hand. “There’s more where this came from.” I glanced at it. Five bucks. She was the last of the big spenders all right. The only way I could extricate myself from her was to agree to take on her case.
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