Dead Secrets

By Ian C. Dawkins Moore

Humphrey lay in his cot asleep. The hot afternoon sun burnt a shadow onto the wall beside him. The head of a large man bent through the light. A hand touched Humphries on the shoulder, and shook him awake.

“Hey Humphrey?” said the man, “Wake up, I need to talk to you.”
“What’s that,” groaned Humphrey.
“Name’s Stevens, I’m an investigator for the Alliance Insurance Company of Cincinnati. You are the beneficiary of an insurance policy, from one...” He pulled the policy document out of his pocket and held it in the light and read, “James Parker, late of Santa Monica.”
“Who?” says Humphrey.
“James Parker. Don’t you know him?” asks Stevens.

Humphrey struggled to get his mind to work; he screwed his eyes up and gathered the grimy sheets around his rotunda, hot, sticky body.
“James Parker, you say,” said Humphrey, pulling himself up. “Yeah, I know that name.
Who wants to know?” He reached for a cigarette, lit it and blew smoke through the ray of light, and stared defiantly up at Stevens....

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ian C. Dawkins Moore
• Release date: May 5, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476166254

Ian C. Dawkins Moore

Ian C. Dawkins Moore was born under the sign of Aries in the year of the Tiger. He survived a British boarding school, the jock world of football hooliganism, hitch-hiking across the Sahara desert, and the two-tone culture of American racism. He is the published author of over 20 books, and he can still see the funny side of life- Be Well & Enjoy!

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Dead Secrets

A novella

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Ian C. Dawkins Moore

DEAD SECRETS

©Copyright 2012 Ian C. Dawkins Moore

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CONTENT

Dead Secrets

About the Author

Nina & Mani Mysteries

Other books by the author

Dead Secrets

I was sitting in our Agency office admiring the newly stenciled title on the backside of the glass door leading into the main office. It was hot. September’s ‘Indian Summer’ in Oakland is a bitch. J.C. was fanning himself over in the corner hiding behind the file cabinets in a vain attempt to stay cool. The air-conditioning was out again, and Nina took the company checkbook to a meditation retreat in the California central valley.

I was getting bored of the journalist gig with the Oakland Tribune. However, Jack Gunter, the editor, kept me on because I was his pet Englishman; plus, he got such mileage out of the Claire Langton affair that he’d have me in the office from time to time to rub my curly head for luck.

"Mr. Mani,