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Reardon
To stop a crime wave, a San Francisco cop investigates a ring of smugglers
Homicide lieutenant James Reardon is raising a martini to his lips when the call comes in from headquarters. He is late for a meeting and the chief is furious. The cocktail, and Reardon’s girlfriend, will have to wait. The meeting is a waste of time—a federal agent repeating platitudes about the dangers of drug smuggling—and Reardon is grateful when a call comes in on the radio, requesting his presence at the scene of a fatal traffic accident. He assumes it will be routine, but Lieutenant Reardon is in for an evening of agony.
The driver claims that he was only going fifteen miles an hour when the victim stepped off the curb. Reardon doesn’t buy it. And when he learns the dead man had just gotten off a ship from Southeast Asia, he realizes that the federal agent was right: Smuggling is a murderous business.
Homicide lieutenant James Reardon is raising a martini to his lips when the call comes in from headquarters. He is late for a meeting and the chief is furious. The cocktail, and Reardon’s girlfriend, will have to wait. The meeting is a waste of time—a federal agent repeating platitudes about the dangers of drug smuggling—and Reardon is grateful when a call comes in on the radio, requesting his presence at the scene of a fatal traffic accident. He assumes it will be routine, but Lieutenant Reardon is in for an evening of agony.
The driver claims that he was only going fifteen miles an hour when the victim stepped off the curb. Reardon doesn’t buy it. And when he learns the dead man had just gotten off a ship from Southeast Asia, he realizes that the federal agent was right: Smuggling is a murderous business.
264 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 16, 2015
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Robert L. Fish
128 books13 followersRobert Lloyd Fish was an American writer of crime fiction. His first novel, The Fugitive, gained him the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Allan Poe Award for best first novel in 1962, and his short story "Moonlight Gardener" was awarded the Edgar for best short story in 1972. His 1963 novel Mute Witness, written under the pseudonym Robert L. Pike, was filmed in 1968 as Bullitt, starring Steve McQueen.
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May 20, 2015
Meet San Francisco police detective, Reardon, and his girl friend,
Jan. Interrupted during a romantic dinner after an even more romantic afternoon with his girl friend, Jan, by the phone calling him to a police meeting he forgot about he hurries down to police headquarters only to find the meeting is being held by the port customs and is about smuggling.
A phone rings during the meeting and Reardon, thinking he can take the call and head back to the restaurant, hurries out of the meeting, only to find it’s for the Traffic section – there’s been an accident, a man has been hit by a car, and Reardon, even though it’s not his department, has to go to the scene.
Now he could be in trouble with his chief and the head of Traffic – but the more he thinks about it, the more he begins to think maybe this wasn’t an accident – it could be murder!
He is in trouble with his chief and with his girl, but Reardon gets to take a couple of days together with a sergeant and see if there is more to this accident than meets the eye.
This is a superb offbeat mystery with characters you would like to meet for dinner or a drink in one of the most romantic towns in the world – you’ll love it! If you don’t, I’ll eat your copy!
Jan. Interrupted during a romantic dinner after an even more romantic afternoon with his girl friend, Jan, by the phone calling him to a police meeting he forgot about he hurries down to police headquarters only to find the meeting is being held by the port customs and is about smuggling.
A phone rings during the meeting and Reardon, thinking he can take the call and head back to the restaurant, hurries out of the meeting, only to find it’s for the Traffic section – there’s been an accident, a man has been hit by a car, and Reardon, even though it’s not his department, has to go to the scene.
Now he could be in trouble with his chief and the head of Traffic – but the more he thinks about it, the more he begins to think maybe this wasn’t an accident – it could be murder!
He is in trouble with his chief and with his girl, but Reardon gets to take a couple of days together with a sergeant and see if there is more to this accident than meets the eye.
This is a superb offbeat mystery with characters you would like to meet for dinner or a drink in one of the most romantic towns in the world – you’ll love it! If you don’t, I’ll eat your copy!
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