I got a call from this broad come August. Can\u2019t complain because I can\u2019t choose my clients. Said she got a case of the usual, good for nuthin\u2019 hubby making excuses on where he kept going at night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m Dick Bullet, private eye, got a cheating wife\/husband and\/or business partner then I\u2019m the sap who sits outside of their house for days, hoping to snap up the incriminating evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This Mrs Mallory may have been a goddess of the silver screen forty years ago, but Old Father Time is a mean old man and chips away at anybody\u2019s good looks. Where she was once stunning with eyes sharp enough to pierce diamonds and legs slender than a snake, practically death and sex wrapped in one tight glove, now she was like a dried raisin, those dark eyes had gone greyer than a rain cloud, her hair was whiter than the north pole and her skin sagged worse than a mattress left out in a forest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Her drawing room though, spoke of enough pennies to fill up the Grand Canyon, the carpet was cleaner than a saint\u2019s conscience, the chairs cut from burgundy leather and dark mahogany, and adding to the taste a few decent prints of Vermeer and Botticelli hung on the walls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mrs Mallory smoked her thin cigarette as her poodle, Satan wrapped up in forty pounds of white fur, hissed and snarled at me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMr Bullet,\u201d she spoke in a pitch higher than Everest , \u201cI believe my husband is having an affair.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yeah, nine out of ten, it\u2019s the suspicion of a cheating spouse and nine out of ten that\u2019s the correct answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYou wanna confirm it?\u201d I asked \u201cor do you want peace of mind? I\u2019d suggest you sit back and let the whole thing run its course, but if you wanna get leverage over your better half then sure lady, I can conjure up some nice juicy pictures.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The past her prime dame, took a drag on her cigarette and let the smoke issue heavenly upwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI can\u2019t rest without knowing the facts. I need the truth Mr. Bullet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yeah, they all say that, not knowing that the truth isn\u2019t like a gentle pinch more like a fifty-tone punch to the pelvis. Like a wish on the monkey\u2019s paw, they get what they ask for, and it tears them up inside like swallowing a demonic paper shredder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWell okay lady,\u201d I shrugged \u201cjust gimme a few facts huh?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I wish I could tell ya that this case led to some shady land deal or that Mr Mallory was found dead in his office but no, I just sat on my ass for seventy-two hours outside his mistress\u2019s house before snapping the photos. I was paid my dues, and I read in a paper months later the Mallorys had separated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, what can one say only that a private eye\u2019s life can be as tedious as a three-day car journey across the Midwest. That\u2019s the fact, jack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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