Dixie Marble:a case of cinemacide
Mystery & Suspense, Women Sleuths, Fiction & Literature, Thrillers
| Author: | Evan Richardson | ISBN: | 9781310642227 |
| Publisher: | Evan Richardson | Publication: | October 2, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition | Language: | English |
| Author: | Evan Richardson |
| ISBN: | 9781310642227 |
| Publisher: | Evan Richardson |
| Publication: | October 2, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition |
| Language: | English |
Dixie Marble is on a case of murders in NYC movie theaters when the Police Commissioner wants to reassign the case to his star detective, Otis Feller, an expert in serial killers. Feeling the commissioner is being discriminating because she is a woman Dixie reminds him that she caught Sugar lips Louie, a killer, the previous year. The commissioner reminds her that she caught the man because she thought he’d stolen her purse and she chased him ten blocks until she realized the purse he was carrying was his own. "Well, he shops in the same stores I do. He’s got good taste,” she answers. “But that little fetish did him in."
With both Dixie and Otis judo experts, the commissioner proposes a judo match between them to determine who is better equipped to handle the case. Both win and both are assigned the case, much to their mutual displeasure. Dixie believes the case involves prostitutes that frequent the theaters where both murders took place. Otis thinks the murders have something to do with a producer whose films were showing when they both occurred.
To meet the producer without revealing she’s a cop, Dixie disguises herself as a singer in a nightclub where the producer has a reservation. To her embarrassment, another murder happens there. But this time the murder weapon is found: a mysterious ring with a knife sticking out of it that had once belonged to a famous dancer, now deceased, with whom the producer had been married. Supposedly, the ring had been buried with her, but could someone have dug her up and was now killing with the ring? Or could the woman, who supposedly died fifty years ago, still be alive and killing with it herself?
Dixie and Otis are off and running interviewing a whole slew of zany, potentially dangerous, suspicious characters, while, in spite of their constant bickering, they are also falling in love. As the sleuths close in on the killer in a rundown movie theater in Times Square, Dixie is cornered in a remote part of the theater, while Otis has only seconds to save her life--and his own.
Dixie Marble is on a case of murders in NYC movie theaters when the Police Commissioner wants to reassign the case to his star detective, Otis Feller, an expert in serial killers. Feeling the commissioner is being discriminating because she is a woman Dixie reminds him that she caught Sugar lips Louie, a killer, the previous year. The commissioner reminds her that she caught the man because she thought he’d stolen her purse and she chased him ten blocks until she realized the purse he was carrying was his own. "Well, he shops in the same stores I do. He’s got good taste,” she answers. “But that little fetish did him in."
With both Dixie and Otis judo experts, the commissioner proposes a judo match between them to determine who is better equipped to handle the case. Both win and both are assigned the case, much to their mutual displeasure. Dixie believes the case involves prostitutes that frequent the theaters where both murders took place. Otis thinks the murders have something to do with a producer whose films were showing when they both occurred.
To meet the producer without revealing she’s a cop, Dixie disguises herself as a singer in a nightclub where the producer has a reservation. To her embarrassment, another murder happens there. But this time the murder weapon is found: a mysterious ring with a knife sticking out of it that had once belonged to a famous dancer, now deceased, with whom the producer had been married. Supposedly, the ring had been buried with her, but could someone have dug her up and was now killing with the ring? Or could the woman, who supposedly died fifty years ago, still be alive and killing with it herself?
Dixie and Otis are off and running interviewing a whole slew of zany, potentially dangerous, suspicious characters, while, in spite of their constant bickering, they are also falling in love. As the sleuths close in on the killer in a rundown movie theater in Times Square, Dixie is cornered in a remote part of the theater, while Otis has only seconds to save her life--and his own.
