Chapters tagged detective

Speaking of almost exclusively homicide by pwizdelf

Chapter 66

Baggett marched down the aisle, also cloaked and shaking off wintry residue, exuding general pique. He stopped next to his desk and moved to pull his chair out, then stopped, surveying the lame chair irritably. “Bersk, where is _my_ chair?” “Bag, the fact that you’re asking _me...

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More depressed than angry by pwizdelf

Chapter 67

Outside, I pulled the heavy wool around me against the snow and tried to decide what I wanted to do. Curry would probably show up at my door sooner or later tonight, since I’d stormed out of the watch house without uninviting him. I was still undecided as to whether I wanted to b...

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Joke's on you by pwizdelf

Chapter 68

I’d left the door to my tiny water closet—which wasn’t even a bathroom in the sense that there was no tub, only a bit of a bathing area with extremely limited duration hot water—shut that morning, with the result that it was on the chilly side now. But I hadn’t peed since before...

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Pretty experienced with dead people by pwizdelf

Chapter 69

===63 Winter 1395========== “Oh, _Bersk_!” Baggett crowed, leaning over from his bar stool and half-colliding into me with silly enthusiasm. “Look who it _is_! Perfect Hair Guy is _finally_ here to see you!” “You are _drunk_,” I informed him, then with faint surprise suddenly p...

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Less caution, more grabbing by pwizdelf

Chapter 70

Scarcely ten minutes later Roland was letting us in through his kitchen door, which he barely got shut before I’d removed my cloak and tossed it on his kitchen table. “Can I—” he began, but I cut him off with a kiss and he wisely shut the fuck up. His lack of experience was evide...

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Where? Where? by pwizdelf

Chapter 71

I stood frozen a long moment while the unbearable remorse over my blatant irresponsibility stole over me and while I mentally backtracked to everywhere I had been tonight and where I could possibly have lost Curry’s token of Rava. I had certainly had it at the pub, since I’d take...

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Really quite a lot by pwizdelf

Chapter 72

I kept my eyes to the ground all the way home, straining to make out any little glint lit up by the street lamps, in case I’d lost it between his place and mine after I left. Unsurprisingly, it didn’t turn up. I undressed again and crawled disconsolately under the covers in just...

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You insulting-adjective insulting-noun by pwizdelf

Chapter 73

“It makes enough sense,” I said. “But I won’t lie, that sounds a little alarming.” “Yeah. I know. And it’s not just _my_ life, I have you to think of.” “Well. I’d be bullshitting if I pretended this didn’t make me _even more_ curious what these things are you’re afraid to think...

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Because of the implication by pwizdelf

Chapter 74

“Are we having some kind of… cards on the table moment we weren’t planning on?” Curry asked after neither of us said anything else right away. “I don’t know. We might be?” I replied, after considering it, and trying to decide how I felt about it if we were. “Why, what’ve you got...

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The Glengarry case statements by pwizdelf

Chapter 75

===29 Spring 1395========== “Don’t look at _him_, look at _me_,” I ordered the young dwarf across the interview table, when he threw Curry a pleading glance. He wanted very badly to be saved from the bad lady cop. “You told _him_ you didn’t even know Tessia, or her brother. Imag...

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