Ice Rink Case

By D. E. Harrison

A fellow at an ice rink appears to have a heart attack. Skating behind him is the Captain of the local medic’s unit. He gives CPR within seconds of the event. The fellow never shows any vital signs during treatment. He is DOA on site.
He was checked out physically at them first of the week. His doctor can not explain the sudden attack. He was wearing his new type of skates and the Coroner found two very small burn marks on both his heels. He waits for the victim’s tread mill results before going on.
The results are unclear, and an autopsy is conducted. He was electrocoated while skating with his grand kids, how is unknown.
The case goes to Inspector Strong as a suspicious death. The skates are suspected as they are a new design using small batteries. The victim worked for a soap company that does business only overseas and moved to Boise after he retired. Nothing else can be found about it in the normal channels.
Three people in Virginia are worried about the investigation but dare not interfere.
Rage goes to the UW to talk to a friend about set theory and circles. He draws circles within circles trying to include all the facts of the case in one large circle that would explain everything.

• Language: English
• Publisher: D. E. Harrison
• Release date: Aug 8, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463194072

D. E. Harrison

I am trained as a theoretical mathematician. I am an emeritus member of the American Mathematical Society for fifty odd years. I have lived in Seattle since 1967. I starting writing fiction after writing a family history.

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Ice Rink Case

By D. E. Harrison

Copyright 2016 by D. E. Harrison

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Ice Rink

Chapter 2 The Autopsy

Chapter 3 The Second Day of the Case

Chapter 4 Testing the Skates

Chapter 5 The Third Day of the Case

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Chapter 1 The Ice Rink

It is not raining in the one city where very few people even own an umbrella, no less use it. But a few people will carry one in January; where it may rain 33-days straight. During these times the ducks wear boots, hip-boots. Last, no matter how much it rains there will never be a mud puddle for the kids to play in several hours later.

The weather in Seattle has a few local descriptions that will mean something only to the locals. Such as, ‘occasional sun breaks’ means it will have intermittent showers. The ‘filtered sun’ means a continual mist will be falling. Partly cloudy means less than 1/4 of an inch of rain. Seattle will forecast rain only if it is more than one inch of liquid sunshine will fall.

The most typical non-summer temperatures are 67 and 58 degrees, take your pick for day or night.

Summer temperatures run from 70 to 95 degrees for several days.

It is one of those rare autumn days where the sun has been out for most of the day. The local ice rink has the normal serious skaters in at 7 am. The music is from the classic FM station. By 9:30 the present skaters have almost left and the music is switched over to tape. The music is a little loud with a ‘beat’.

The extra help starts coming in 9:30 and by 10 am they are ready for the day. Jim the owner is hoping for a good day, but the weather is still too nice to drive people indoors. There is the normal rush at 10:15 and then right after lunch. For some reason there is a good crowd around 1 pm. He is up in the observation box changing the two-hour tape to something else. Most people do