Murder on the Mainline: another Mike Claymore Mystery Chapter 14 - Sex Stories

Murder on the Mainline: another Mike Claymore Mystery Chapter 14

... young lady and this is what I found. We need to get an ambulance right away. I could only detect a weak pulse." "Ambulance is on the way. My partner called for it. Have you touched anything?" "Door knobs and her wrist. That's it. I know better. Oh, I did pick up the phone in the living room to try and call you guys, but it's been pulled out of the wall." "Quite a mess down there." "And in the bathroom up here." "I figured he'd kill her, one of these days. We get lots of calls to this address. Poor kid." "Neighbor says he heard quite a ruckus here last night. Guess he didn't call it in. Notice the lamp. I heard a thumping when I was on the back porch and I think she was trying to get my attention by banging it on the floor." "How long ago was that?" "Couldn't have been more than twenty minutes ago." They hear the squawk of the ambulance siren out front and Mike says, "I'll go and direct them up here." "Bring them in through the front door. It'll be faster." "Right." Mike dashes downstairs to the front door. He unlocks it and swings it open for the paramedics waiting just outside. "This way, fellows. She's up those stairs." Behind him another officer says, "Who are you?" Mike swings around grinning and says, "I just went through that with your partner. I'm Mike Claymore, private investigator. I'm working on the Hanson murder in POCO. I came here to get a statement from the young lady living with Hanson's ex. I found her upstairs is very poor condition. She may be dead. ...

... Neighbor says they had a row last night. That's about it." He hands his I.D. to the officer. "Good." He hands Mike back his I.D. "Don't run off. We'll want to ask you some more questions later." "I intend to accompany Miss Mathers to the hospital where I still hope to get a statement from her. It's more imperative than ever now. She's Hanson's alibi. After what he's done to her now, if she still defends him, I'll believe her. If she doesn't I won't know what to believe." "Yeah, she might say she was lying to get even with the bastard." "That's the problem." "Who you working with on the case?" "Staff Sgt. Lindross, RCMP. You know him?" "Not personally, but I hear he's a taskmaster." "He's tough, but seems to be fair in the dealings I've had with him so far." "Bullhead Lindross, they call him down at the station. He never lets go until he has his perp. Takes the Mounties’s motto seriously. You know what a perp is, don't you? A perpetrator. A person who commits a criminal act." "Yeah, I know the lingo." He grins, "You know what lingo is, don't you? The language, a person’s manner of speaking." They both chuckle. "Got me." The medics come down with a stretcher and quickly take Marie to the back of the ambulance on the street. Mike goes along asking her condition. "Critical." is his reply. "Where you taking her?" "Royal Columbian in New West" "Thanks. I'll follow." He speaks to the officers and tells them he'll be at Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster for the next hour or so. ...