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    Velda Does a Good Deed
    Velda Does a Good Deed
    Velda Does a Good Deed
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    Velda Does a Good Deed

    By Ron Miller

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    Velda Bellinghausen is a down-on-her-luck private eye barely scraping by in her run-down apartment building. When her elderly neighbor, an antiquarian book dealer named Mr. Arkady, falls ill, Velda agrees to help with his errands in exchange for some much-needed cash. As she delivers rare books to Arkady's eccentric clients, Velda begins to suspect that someone may be deliberately trying to harm the old man in order to get their hands on one of his valuable tomes.

    With the arrival of a shady new tenant in the building, the mystery deepens. Velda must use her street smarts and detective skills to unravel the puzzle before it's too late.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBlack Cat Weekly
    Release dateMar 24, 2024
    ISBN9781479468225
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      Velda Does a Good Deed - Ron Miller

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      COPYRIGHT INFORMATION

      VELDA DOES A GOOD DEED, by Ron Miller

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      COPYRIGHT INFORMATION

      Copyright © 2024 by Ron Miller.

      Original publication by Black Cat Weekly.

      blackcatweekly.com

      VELDA DOES A GOOD DEED,

      by Ron Miller

      I’ve got to get out of this business. It’s not that I don’t like it, which I sometimes do, it’s just that I can’t seem to make any money. If it weren’t for Joe letting me eat on the house and the Loewensteins being nice enough to let my rent ride for the last three months, I don’t know what I’d be doing. Probably shedding feathers back on the runway at Slotnik’s, God forbid. I really don’t want to give up detecting, though—the Hawkshaw course cost me twenty bucks and I’d hate like anything to waste it. That twenty bucks wasn’t easy to come by.

      Besides, I wasn’t quite ready yet to get the old hoo-ha from my erstwhile pals at the Follies. So I wasn’t too proud to say, sure, you bet, when Mr. Arkady offered me a sawbuck to run some errands for him. He’s the old coot that deals in antiquarian

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