Who Cares©

By F J Shindler

Who Cares? is one of a number of stories in the Doctor Goodier and Harry Mysteries compilation.

Alice Seaborne is found dead at the bottom of her stairs, her 90 year old body oozing blood. On the table in the kitchen is an application form to an elderly resident's home, where people with Dementia are promised special care.

Looking into her death, Doctor Goodier and Harry uncover a sinister organisation, one closer to home than either had imagined.

• Language: English
• Publisher: F J Shindler
• Release date: May 26, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005941611

F J Shindler

F J Shindler was born in Manchester, England, but subsequently lived in various parts of the country before moving abroad. He now lives in a very hilly, very rural part of the Czech Republic in an old, though charming former farmhouse.The author of the ever-expanding short story series, ‘The Doctor Goodier and Harry Mysteries’, F J Shindler’s debut full length novel is the first of twelve interrelated works in the ‘Klub Päris Fantastiline’ series. Written in adult noir fiction form, Book one, ‘The Ninth Case File’, is set in 1966 and is titled ‘Mikey’.

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Other books by F J Shindler

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Acknowledgements

Acknowledgement to Danie Franco for their kind permission to adapt the cover image.

Preface

Who Cares? is one of a number of stories in the Doctor Goodier and Harry Mysteries compilation.

Alice Seaborne is found dead at the bottom of her stairs, her 90 year old body oozing blood. On the table in the kitchen is an application form to an elderly resident's home, where people with Dementia are promised special care.

Looking into her death, Doctor Goodier and Harry uncover a sinister organisation, one closer to home than either had imagined.

Who Cares?

A Doctor Goodier and Harry Mystery

The blood-soaked carpet surrounding Alice Seaborne’s head was littered with paw marks, testament to the fact that at least one of her cats had sipped on the warm, crimson fluid as she lay dying at the bottom of the stairs. Habitually a well-groomed woman, her usually marble-like skin had been transformed into a hideous, garish mask, the end result of countless cat-licks on her bloodied cheeks and lips as she breathed her last. Had Alice been a good deal younger, a girl with the most supple of joints perhaps, the unnatural twists and bends