It was raining in the city by the bay, the drops were pounding the pavement, wearing at it before flowing into the gutters and sewers.
Dixon Hill glanced around at the empty street, the cars parked along the sidewalk, the mostly dark windows of apartments. Then he stepped down into the street and pulled his collar up around his neck, blocking some of the pelting drops from reaching his jacket and shirt. The fog drifted in over the tops of the buildings, letting the lights from the street corners bounce back with the rain, clearly lighting his way.
In the distance a ship’s foghorn wailed, sending its sad-sounding cry echoing over the city. The smell of the docks was strong tonight, thick with fish and seaweed and salt. A familiar smell, like the scent of a mother to a child.
The click of his heels on the pavement was like the beat of a heart, sometimes lost in the rain, other times clear, constantly there with him. Dixon Hill took a deep breath of the night air and stared ahead through the rain, always watching where he was headed.
Somewhere out there, in this city by the bay, was a murderer. And he would not rest until the case was solved. And tonight he had a lead. Not much of one, but a lead.
Which might turn into a better clue, and then more and more clues, until finally the murderer of the man in the wall sat in jail where he belonged.
Again the ship’s foghorn echoed over the buildings.
Dixon Hill was on the case.
Around him the city slept, peacefully resting for another day.
It was raining in the city by the bay. A hard rain.
Clues from Dixon Hill’s notebook in “The Case of the Man in the Wall”
• The man has been in there for at least fifteen years.
• Someone killed him to threaten Dixon Hill.
• But if the man was killed as a threat, why was the body boarded up behind a wall that might never be opened?
• All this is a loose end from another case and it might never be tied up. Sometimes it is just better to let skeletons from a person’s past stay in the closet.
(Author’s note: “The Case of the Man in the Wall” remains to this day Dixon Hill’s only unsolved mystery.)
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#36 •How Much for Just the Planet? • John M. Ford
#37 •Bloodthirst • J.M. Dillard
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#56 •The First Virtue • Michael Jan Friedman & Christie Golden
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#58-59 •Gemworld • John Vornholt
#58 •Gemworld #1
#59 •Gemworld #2
#60 •Tooth and Claw • Doranna Durgin
#61 •Diplomatic Implausibility • Keith R.A. DeCandido
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#62 •Dead Zone
#63 •Forever Dark
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Legends of the Ferengi • Ira Steven Behr & Robert Hewitt Wolfe
Novelizations
Emissary • J.M. Dillard
The Search • Diane Carey
The Way of the Warrior • Diane Carey
Star Trek: Klingon • Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Trials and Tribble-ations • Diane Carey
Far Beyond the Stars • Steve Barnes
What You Leave Behind • Diane Carey
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#2 •The Siege • Peter David
#3 •Bloodletter • K.W. Jeter
#4 •The Big Game • Sandy Schofield
#5 •Fallen Heroes • Dafydd ab Hugh
#6 •Betrayal • Lois Tilton
#7 •Warchild • Esther Friesner
#8 •Antimatter • John Vornholt
#9 •Proud Helios • Melissa Scott
#10 •Valhalla • Nathan Archer
#11 •Devil in the Sky • Greg Cox & John Gregory Betancourt
#12 •The Laertian Gamble • Robert Sheckley
#13 •Station Rage • Diane Carey
#14 •The Long Night • Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch
#15 •Objective: Bajor • John Peel
#16 •Invasion! #3: Time’s Enemy • L.A. Graf
#17 •The Heart of the Warrior • John Gregory Betancourt
#18 •Saratoga • Michael Jan Friedman
#19 •The Tempest • Susan Wright
#20
•Wrath of the Prophets • David, Friedman & Greenberger
#21 •Trial by Error • Mark Garland
#22 •Vengeance • Dafydd ab Hugh
#23 •The 34th Rule • Armin Shimerman & David R. George III
#24-26 •Rebels • Dafydd ab Hugh
#24 •The Conquered
#25 •The Courageous
#26 •The Liberated
Books set after the Series
The Lives of Dax • Marco Palmieri, ed.
Millennium • Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens
#1 •The Fan of Terok Nor
#2 •The War of the Prophets
#3 •Inferno
A Stitch in Time • Andrew J. Robinson
Avatar, Book One • S.D. Perry
Avatar, Book Two • S.D. Perry
Section 31: Abyss: • David Weddle & Jeffrey Lang
Gateways #4: Demons of Air and Darkness • Keith R.A. DeCandido
Gateways #7: What Lay Beyond: “Horn and Ivory” • Keith R.A. DeCandido
Star Trek:®Voyager Mosaic • Jeri Taylor
Pathways • Jeri Taylor
Captain Proton: Defender of the Earth • D.W. “Prof” Smith
Novelizations
Caretaker • L.A. Graf
Flashback • Diane Carey
Day of Honor • Michael Jan Friedman
Equinox • Diane Carey
Endgame • Diane Carey & Christie Golden
#1 •Caretaker • L.A. Graf
#2 •The Escape • Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch
#3 •Ragnarok • Nathan Archer
#4 •Violations • Susan Wright
#5 •Incident at Arbuk • John Gregory Betancourt
#6 •The Murdered Sun • Christie Golden
#7 •Ghost of a Chance • Mark A. Garland & Charles G. McGraw
#8 •Cybersong • S.N. Lewitt
#9 •Invasion! #4: Final Fury • Dafydd ab Hugh
#10 •Bless the Beasts • Karen Haber
#11 •The Garden • Melissa Scott
#12 •Chrysalis • David Niall Wilson
#13 •The Black Shore • Greg Cox
#14 •Marooned • Christie Golden
#15 •Echoes • Dean Wesley Smith, Kristine Kathryn Rusch & Nina Kiriki Hoffman
#16 •Seven of Nine • Christie Golden
#17 •Death of a Neutron Star • Eric Kotani
#18 •Battle Lines • Dave Galanter & Greg Brodeur
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