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2015 April A-Z Challenge ~~ The ABC’s of Death

JackieP

I’m not going to list each preceding chapter every day. It would get much too long.  If you haven’t read previous chapters I have a category listing on the side with the title 2015 April A-Z challenge. You can find all the chapters there. Thanks for reading!

ABC'S of Death book cover (4)

Cutout Letters

 

I was looking over the Hilton’s high-priced menu from their restaurant downstairs when a knock sounded on the door. Must be Angela.

As soon as the door was open in rushes Angela. “Dee! Thank God you’re here! I do hope you’re good at this private eye business! Of course you are! You’re Dee! You would be good at it!”

Before I could even get a hello injected into her fast talking, nervous dialog, she starts again.

“Dee! You are good at it aren’t you? I can’t talk to the police and so I thought of you because someone told me that you were a private detective now and I didn’t know what else to do! Someone killed Tony! Now they might be after me! I don’t even know why!”

Whoa. This was not the Angela I knew in college. This was some caricature of her. Not a good one either. She was standing in the middle of the room, still talking in a fast, scared, non-stopping clip. I had to make her calm down if I was going to make any sense of what she was telling me.

For half a second, I thought of slapping her, but I don’t think she would appreciate my tactics. So I decided to use a different method. I grab her shoulders and give her a hard brief shake. She at least stopped talking. Now she was staring up at me with big tear-filled blue eyes and her mouth wide open. Not a good look on anyone.

“Sit down Angela and tell me what the hell is going on. Slowly.”

I push her into a chair and sit across from her. I see her take a deep breath and let it out. She wipes her eyes and hands me a note that I hadn’t noticed she had gripped in her fist. I straighten it out and read it.

Crap.

It was made up of cut out letters from magazines. Crooks actually still do that? Old school I’m thinking. Or they are into the dramatics.

note for book

It was time for me to know about Tony.

 

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21 thoughts on “2015 April A-Z Challenge ~~ The ABC’s of Death”

  2. Great forward progress, Jackie. Lots of excitement here and good hook at the end.

    I have to know!! How did you make that graphic with the cutout letter message? Very cool!

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    1. Thanks Maddie! I’m so glad you are enjoying it. 🙂

      The cutout graphic was made with Canva, it’s what I use for the book cover also. It’s a great free program.

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  6. Wow, I back tracked and read the one I missed…very good writing sweet Jackie. I sure hope I find time to get to read it all, you really have me curious as to what is ahead. I love good mysteries and you sure have one going here. Hugs

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  7. We need to remember this as print media is dying slowly: What about the ransom notes?!

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