The Case of the Unseen Lady / Chapter 1: A Very Unique Case
It was a night like any other night, my office in disarray, lit by the one small bulb overhead, the sounds of Los Angeles drifting through the window with the last glow of sunset like a warm wave on a...
View ArticleThe Case of the Unseen Lady / Chapter 2: Just the Facts
I was sitting in my office with my new client. Once she had put her glove back on – it had been strangely distracting – I got out my notebook and started to get her story. Her name was Natalie Taylor...
View ArticleThe Case of the Unseen Lady / Chapter 3: An Unlikely Colleague
I stayed in the office a while making notes on how I might approach this unprecedented mystery. I had all the elements of a typical case but with a very exceptional twist. But eventually my head was...
View ArticleThe Case of the Unseen Lady / Chapter 4: The Scene of the Incident
I knocked on the door and a short, dark-haired woman with black horn-rim glasses opened the door. “Miss Hindemith?” I asked, “I’m Jonathan Drake, a private investigator.” From a back room I heard what...
View ArticleThe Case of the Unseen Lady / Chapter 5: The Diagnosis – a Clear Case of...
“Something has been added to Miss Taylor’s body.” Doctor Morand and I were in his office that evening after all of his patients and most of his staff had left. He was doing his best to explain things...
View ArticleThe Case of the Unseen Lady / Chapter 6: Glamorous Motives and Fashionable...
The next day I caught a bus to the fashion agency where my client was employed. Called Glamorous Images, it was an upscale place in a decent part of town. I learned that many of the models, including...
View ArticleThe Case of the Unseen Lady / Chapter 7: Leather and Steel
After nearly a week of trying to meet with Bradley Ambridge, I finally arranged to talk to him at his father’s private ranch. I had to barrow Jake’s automobile to get out there – it was some distance...
View ArticleThe Case of the Unseen Lady / Chapter 8: An Unseen Visitor
I spent the next day working on my other open case. I had been so involved in Natalie Taylor’s case that I had let the first one slide. This case involved a potential insurance fraud. A lumberyard had...
View ArticleThe Case of the Unseen Lady / Chapter 9: Face to Face
I recognized the shape of Natalie’s face from her photograph but I immediately saw that something was wrong about it. Her skin was extremely pale and chalky except for her bright red lips. I further...
View ArticleThe Case of the Unseen Lady / Chapter 10: A New Relationship
I didn’t have time to deal with Natalie’s sudden claim to employment so I met with the new client; a big lady with a fox stole. It turned out to be a typical case involving an unfaithful husband....
View ArticleRachael and Jeremy
Copyright (c) by Realistek. Used by permission. Jeremy and Rachael were spending the evening together in their apartment as they usually do on Thursday night. Jeremy, still wearing the basic shirt and...
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Max knew it had to be her as soon as he saw the woman waiting outside his front garden. Of course, it was impossible to see anything beneath her heavy dark veil or her long coat, but that only made him...
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In the kitchen he found Diane standing over the sink, which was filling with hot water. “Just look at all these dirty cups. It’s a good job you’ve got a good friend like me to wash them up for you....
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Dan’s heart sank when he saw Max on Wednesday morning. Until now the German had always looked smart, despite all his problems, but now his clothes were crumpled, stubble was starting to shade his chin,...
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Max woke up and, for a moment, wondered where he was. This wasn’t his bedroom. He felt someone move beside him, and heard a woman yawn. “Becky?” he thought. He turned to look, but what he saw brought...
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Max poured himself another large whisky and waited for Diane to return from her kitchen. He couldn’t get that embrace out of his mind. He had seen right down inside her top, seen the underwear beneath...
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That night Max dreamt he was searching the warehouse for Becky, hearing her voice calling him but never seeing her, always being interrupted by the ringing of the warehouse phone. He woke up, and his...
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Max was the last person to leave the office that evening. He couldn’t stand the thought of returning to an empty house, and he didn’t feel up to an evening of pretending to be happy with Dan and the...
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He didn’t notice the men unloading the truck in the forecourt. He just walked past them as if they’d been invisible. Jake, the warehouse foreman, called out, “Cheer up Max, it might never happen.” Max...
View ArticleTo Stalk Unseen (Paul Ingerson)
In which a stalking victim decides his “predicament” may not be so bad after all… Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 If you’d like to see this story...
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