Number Eleven: Whale Vomit

By Colin Cotterill

Jimm didn't know what she had found on the beach or how valuable it was. Her Granddad did though. What she also didn't know were the troubles her attempt to claim a fortune would lead her into.

Number Eleven: Whale Vomit is the eleventh in a new series of Colin Cotterill short stories featuring his female news reporter and detective, Jimm Juree. Fans of Jimm know her from the four novels where, with the help of the members of her strange family, she usually solves the crime. Move over Miss Marple, Jimm Juree does it for the 21st Century.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Proglen
• Release date: Aug 9, 2019
• ISBN: 9786164560192

Colin Cotterill

Colin Cotterill (born 2 October 1952) is a London-born teacher, crime writer and cartoonist. Cotterill has dual English and Australian citizenship; however, he currently lives in Southeast Asia, where he writes the award-winning Dr. Siri mystery series set in the People's Democratic Republic of Laos.

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Number Eleven

Whale Vomit

A Jimm Juree Short Story

By Colin Cotterill

Number Eleven: Whale Vomit

Copyright © Colin Cotterill, 2019

DCO Books

eBook Edition published by

Proglen Trading Co., Ltd. 2019

Bangkok Thailand

http://www.dco.co.th

eBook ISBN 978-616-456-019-2

All Rights Reserved

This book is a work of fiction. All names, characters, and other elements of the story are either the product of the author's imagination or else are used only fictitiously. Any resemblance to real characters, living or dead, or to real incidents, is entirely coincidental.

Also by Colin Cotterill

Dr. Siri Paiboun series

The Coroner's Lunch (2004)

Thirty-Three Teeth (August 2005)

Disco For the Departed (August 2006

Anarchy and Old Dogs (August 2007)

Curse of the Pogo Stick (August 2008)

The Merry Misogynist (August 2009)

Love Songs from a Shallow Grave (August 2010)

Slash and Burn (October 2011)

The Woman Who Wouldn't Die (January 2013)

Six and a Half Deadly Sins (May 2015)

The Rat Catchers' Olympics (August 2017)

Jimm Juree series

Killed at the Whim of a Hat (July 2011)

Grandad, There's a Head on the Beach (June 2012)

The Axe Factor (April 2014)

The Amok Runners (June 2016)

Other publications

Evil in the Land Without (2003)

Ethel and Joan Go to Phuket (2004)

Pool and its Role in Asian Communism (2005)

Cyclelogical (2006)

Ageing Disgracefully (2009)

Bleeding in Black and White (2015)

Contents

Introduction to Jimm Juree

Whale Vomit

Introduction

Brief description of how the Jurees ended up in Maprao, the buttock-hole of the earth.

I’ll keep this brief because it still irks me to tell our story. My name is Jimm Juree and I was, at one stage, a mere liver failure away from fame and fortune in Chiang Mai. But our mother, Mair, dragged the family down south to run a decrepit seaside resort on the Gulf of Thailand. I’m a reporter. A real one. And as soon as the head of the crime desk at the Chiang Mai Mail completed his impending suicide by Mekhong Whisky, I was to step into his moldy old shoes; only the second female in the country to hold such a prestigious position.

Then Mair – nutty as peanut brittle – sold our family home without telling us and headed south. With her went her father, Granddad Jah, the only Thai traffic policeman to go through an entire career without accepting bribes or kickbacks, my brother, Arny, a wimpy lamb with the body of a Greek God, and me. The only one to pass up on family obligation was Sissy, my transsexual brother. Once a cabaret star, and briefly a TV celebrity, now an ageing recluse, Sissy had become something of an internet criminal and although I haven’t forgiven her for deserting us, I do find her skills useful from time to time.

You see, although I would never have guessed it, Maprao and its environs is a hotbed of crime. Although I’m technically the part-time social events reporter for the shitty local newspaper, barely a week goes by that I’m not chasing down some