Lee Hacklyn Private Investigator in Not To Be Continued: Lee Hacklyn, #1

By John Leister

New York City. 1973.

 

Lee is off to Los Angeles, the City of Dreams, to help nab

the "Old-Time Serial Killer." 

• Language: English
• Publisher: John Leister
• Release date: Oct 22, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223246008

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QUEENS.  NEW YORK CITY. 1973.

CHAPTER ONE

When you wake up on your back, not in the comfort of your bed, but on your cold, kitchen floor; and your pillow isn’t the one you’re used to, instead, it’s a pillow comprised of what you ate and drank the night before, it might not be the worst idea in the world to at least consider making, to quote David Bowie, some ch-ch-ch-changes.

I stood very slowly.

My puke pillow ran down my naked back.

Yuck.

My feet were bare.

I took a step and did the splits, Rudolf Nureyev-style.

Yoga pays off, kids.

My groin remained intact.

I’d slid in another puddle of puke.

Oh, what a night.

Yes, it was late December, ’73, not ’63; and I was a mere few weeks into my new career as an honest-to-God private investigator.

My first case was a real headline grabber.

I was twenty-five and the attention was overwhelming.

I totally get why so many child actors, it seemed to me, wound up drug and/or alcohol addicts.

The human mind, especially a developing one, can take only so much adulation and sycophancy.

Then, one day, without any warning, it’s yanked away from you, for new blood, and suddenly, you’re a nobody.

The attraction of a quick fix to ease the pain of loss can be as tempting as the apple was to Adam and Eve.

My sister, Ann, who was two years older than me, she’s a corporate lawyer, was proud of me.

That made me happy.

I was never jealous of her.

I always looked up to her.

Straight As.  A