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    Ecdysis
    Ecdysis
    Ecdysis
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    Ecdysis

    By James D. Macdonald and Debra Doyle

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    A dark, rainy night, and a serial killer has claimed another victim; another stripper. Lieutenant Phil Paran has his theory of which really sick bastard is doing 'em. Orville Nesbit, psychic investigator, has another.
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    "Ecdysis" originally appeared in OtherWere, edited by Laura Anne Gilman & Keith R.A. DeCandido.
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    If you liked this story: Orville Nesbit investigates another case, a classic country-house mystery, in "A Tremble in the Air" by Doyle and Macdonald.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJames D. Macdonald
    Release dateMay 2, 2011
    ISBN9781458084026
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      Ecdysis - James D. Macdonald

      Ecdysis

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      Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald

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      Copyright 1996, 2011 by Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald

      Ecdysis first appeared in Otherwere, Laura Ann Gilman and Keith R.A. DeCandido, eds., Berkley/Ace, September 1996. ISBN: 0-441-00363-X

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      Ecdysis

      A rain-slicked night, and another murder.

      The yellow crime-scene tape stretched all around the Third Street Laundromat. Black-and-white police cars, their blue lights strobing off the wet pavement, blocked the intersections to the north and south.

      It was a good thing, Detective Lieutenant Paran reflected, that fingerprints weren't the only way to ID a Jane Doe. This killing made the fourth in the string, all with the same MO. The body tonight also made the second one this month. Could mean the psycho was getting itchy. Or maybe not. Not if the killer was following a lunar pattern like the profile suggested. Two full moons this month, and tonight—behind the rain and clouds—tonight was one of them.

      A flashbulb exploded inside the Laundromat: the police photographer, getting the evidence shots.

      Paran stopped at the door to light a cigar and anchor it between his teeth. Lots of the detectives in Homicide smoked them—they covered up some of the other

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