Roped Part 3

By Stephen Shypitka

Le chat la souris.
Guess whose dying to dinner?
Highly charged reboot inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s original for intellectual thrills two mates plot a murder then proceed to throw a dinner party with the body stuffed inside the trunk of their buffet table.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Stephen Shypitka
• Release date: Apr 8, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005315382

Stephen Shypitka

Stephen's eBooks have sold across 4 continents in Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Jamaica, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Switzerland the UK and the US. His online success has allowed his work to be noticed, read and savoured with his fiction for our times that turns heads, crosses genres and connects us all. Stephen was born in British Columbia, Canada an alumnus of USC film school in Los Angeles, he has taught the craft and loves to travel.

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Roped

By Stephen Shypitka

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Dedication

For Farley Granger

CONTENTS PART III

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

About The Author

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Roped

Chapter 7

The sun was setting across the LA basin.

Morgan was sitting melancholy on a Chez lounge. Red.

Henri with a wave of his hand in front of Morgan's still torn face.

Why so down? Henri righted himself turning away. It's the darkness that's got you? He stood staring at the city lights.

No. Can we just—

Henri placed the curtain rope around Morgan's neck.

Return that from whence it came.

Jesus! Morgan jumped.

Henri motioned to the nearby set of curtains.

A fresh linen tablecloth had been laid out across the dining room table.

Henri stepped on the blood-stained carpet. A reminder of what lies beneath.

Oops...

Henri raised his Versace shoes.

I've ruined them? Taking them off.

He tried to wipe the carpet stain as best as he could with the old table runner. Wiping down one wooden leg. Re-adjusting the dining table so the leg mostly covered the stain.

Wait! Morgan tried.

Henri threw his shoes