It was an audacious crime, but one in which he had carelessly neglected to remove his fingerprints from the title sheet of the story, and the man had been shattered when told that Cyril Antony had already unleashed it on an unsuspecting public in e-book form and that, furthermore, there was nothing he could do about it at all. Once self-published, it stayed published, unless the author unpublished it.
DI Streeter, of course, took all the credit, and just referred to the sudden and unexpected solution to it as ‘acting on information received from an unnamed source’. But it still rankled when he thought of the identity of that unnamed source, and the credit he’d received soured in his mouth.
Holmes and Garden, meanwhile, had put it behind them, after a couple of mutual pats on the back, and were interesting themselves in ways to disguise the human face and form. That was much more fun. Maybe they’d get to try it out soon, on their next case. Garden had really been a trail-blazer with his portrayal of Joanne, although he decided he may have to make himself a little less attractive on his next venture out in that persona. He didn’t want to be ravished by some macho man who was out for a good time. The poor fellow would end up in therapy.
THE END
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