Chapters tagged detective

Fair is for people who are used to things going their way by pwizdelf

Chapter 32

It took me a moment to catch up enough to parse all of that, and then I was horrified. “You think I cheated on my detective course examinations?” There was a long, deflating silence during which she didn’t speak, or at least, one that felt long to me, and when she still didn’t sp...

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Five-thirty in the afternoon on a Fourthday by pwizdelf

Chapter 33

“I think you should retake the oral section of the examinations,” she said, “in a written format. The purpose of the oral examinations is to observe the student’s ability to respond to certain thought exercises on demand. Typically the more expedient approach is oral question and...

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Scut work and pints by pwizdelf

Chapter 35

===27 Harvest 1383========== “Hey,” Curry whispered, leaning over several stacks of papers and knocking his boot against mine where our two desks were pushed together. When I looked up from my busywork he grinned happily at me. “Guess what. It’s Fourthday afternoon, and we’re de...

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Less sexy than it sounds at first blush by pwizdelf

Chapter 36

“Soo… hey,” Curry said, coming back from the bar and leaning on our high table some hour-or-so later. “Hey, you. Want another pint?” I asked. “Or… do you want to go?” I was pretty sure Baggett and I were both fine with it if we just all left and then resumed our aggravating, not...

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A mean cunt in a crowded pub by pwizdelf

Chapter 37

I was still mulling over what the evening might hold in store, glancing around the taproom to see if anybody caught my eye—or if I’d caught anyone else’s—when someone slid into Baggett's seat next to me, cheerfully drumming their fingers on the table. I’d already half-turned, thi...

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The first time I saw a wig on the beach by pwizdelf

Chapter 38

“I don’t know if there’s any sight quite so joyful,” Baggett said in a dreamy sort of voice, passing me the hash joint he’d just rolled, then leaning on the boardwalk railing, “as a bird so absolutely determined to eat a piece of paper that once had a fish pie wrapped up in it. I...

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You cock-blocked us both tonight! by pwizdelf

Chapter 39

I tiptoed upstairs, knowing Nan would be long asleep by now. Curry’s door was shut same as it had been when we left that morning, and I didn’t know if that meant he hadn’t come home yet, or had been home for a while already and was asleep or reading or something. I was quiet, but...

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Yergen's famous pillowy cinnamon fritters by pwizdelf

Chapter 41

“Wait—wait—wait! What do you mean, Bag thinks Barty’s suspect for Khan is the same as ours for Ethelbanian?” I asked, sitting up all the way from where I lay sprawled on the garden settee next to him, and eyeballing Curry. “Same suspect as in coincidentally knew both women, or sa...

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We hear she loved Krap by pwizdelf

Chapter 42

“This looks far more insane than I imagined from the description I was just given,” Baggett said when I came downstairs some fifteen minutes later, having struggled a bit with the unwieldiness of the large corkboard on which Curry had recreated Lamb’s city map. But his eyes had a...

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That works on a few levels by pwizdelf

Chapter 44

===8 Spring 1386========== “I don’t follow, he thinks the green string means what, again?” I asked Curry, puzzled, then drew in a sharp gasp when I accidentally drove the needle I was using to resew a button on my cloak straight into my thumb. A bright spot of blood beaded up im...

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