Lost Dog: The Calendar Mysteries, #0.6

By Juliet Kincaid

"Lost Dog," a historical mystery prequel short story to Juliet Kincaid's Calendar Mystery Series

 

On July 5, 1898, a future career as a business girl as a typist/stenographer weighs heavily on Minty Wilcox's mind. But distractions ensue when her sourpuss spinster neighbor lays abuse on Minty's kid brother and sister, and a lost dog. Her mother's disapproval and several flirtatious gents don't help Minty in reaching her goal in this prequel story to Juliet Kincaid's Calendar Mysteries that tell the story of business girl Minty Wilcox and dashing detective Daniel Price from newly met to newlywed and beyond in Kansas City where life could get downright deadly a hundred years or so ago.

 

Praise for "Lost Dog"

What a delight to find myself in "old" Kansas City again with such wonderfully drawn characters. I feel I know them and would love to follow them along the street while looking for the lost dog's owner and I could just push that old neighbor back into the bushes after rescuing the poor dog from her vicious beating. Oh, this author brings them so alive and that is what keeps me reading her stories.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Juliet Kincaid
• Release date: Jun 25, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201584832

Juliet Kincaid

I’ve been hooked on fiction since grade school. And I’ve always preferred stories that supply adventure and escape. Humor and wit help, too. I try to write the same sort of stories and novels as the ones I like to read. In addition to the Calendar Mystery series, my published work includes the Cinderella, P. I. Fairy Tale Mysteries for grown-ups that feature Cinderella as a detective twenty years, three kids, and a few extra pounds after the ball. (Happy endings guaranteed.) My stories and novels are available as eBooks and trade paperbacks. I have also written and published Novel Basics, a concise yet complete guide to writing a novel. My daughter, Jessica Kincaid, the bead artist, and I live in a house filled with books, mostly detective fiction, just a few miles from where Minty Wilcox and Daniel Price have their adventures in the Calendar Historical Mystery stories and novels. You can contact me at juliet@julietkincaid. com, Juliet_Kincaid on Goodreads, JulietKincaid on Twitter, and JulietKincaidauthor2016 and juliet.kincaid on Facebook. To find out what work I currently have available, sign up for notifications at https://books2read.com/author/juliet-kincaid/subscribe/1/305166/

Book preview

LOST DOG

a historical mystery short story

a prequel story to the Calendar Mystery series

that tells the story of business girl Minty Wilcox

and dashing detective Daniel Price

from newly met to newlywed and beyond

in Kansas City, a place that could get downright deadly

a hundred years or so ago

By Juliet Kincaid

AzureSky Press

AZP

Lost Dog © 2017 by Juliet Willman Kincaid. All rights reserved. No part of this story may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever, including Internet usage, without written permission from Juliet Kincaid except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

AzureSky Press, LLC

Overland Park, KS

Copyright © 2017

Cover by Juliet Kincaid

Lost Dog is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual events, locales, and persons, living or dead, and their animals is entirely coincidental.

LOST DOG

a historical mystery short story

a prequel story to the Calendar Mystery Series

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LOST DOG

HISTORICAL NOTE

ALSO BY JULIET KINCAID

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

LOST DOG

a historical mystery short story

Tuesday, July 5, 1898, shortly after noon

Kansas City, Missouri

As Minty Wilcox hurried home, she mentally reviewed the symbols from Mr. Gregg’s shorthand system she’d studied that morning at the Kansas City Business College. A pretty woman of nineteen years, she wore a white dress with navy blue trim around the square neck that gave the dress a nautical air. A jaunty seersucker sailor hat with a blue and white band sat on top of her light brown hair she wore in a loose bun. Minty carried a black school bag over her shoulder.

She’d just crossed Tenth Street when shouts up ahead on the avenue pulled her out of her reverie.

On the steps of a big white Victorian house near the other end of the block, a woman in black held up a broom as if it were a baseball bat. It looked like she meant to take a swing with it at two children standing on the sidewalk below.

My gosh! Minty said when she recognized the children as her youngest siblings and the woman as their neighbor Miss Agnes Shackleton. Minty promptly lifted her skirts to mid-calf and ran the rest of the way down Pennsylvania Avenue.

Just after Minty reached Eddie, a slim, brown-haired boy in a white shirt and knee pants, and Peach, a