Killed in Paradise
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I turned the knob. “Good-bye, Jan. Maybe you can charm your way out of this. Men are easy. Meeting you has been a real experience.” I opened the door.
She grabbed the front of my shirt. “You can’t!” she screamed.
Gently, I disengaged fingers from cloth. “I did,” I said softly. “Pleasant dreams.”
I let Spot out, then followed him. Somebody in a black car tapped on a horn. I waved and nodded to a shape behind a tinted windshield.
Kenni was waiting. I didn’t even hang around to see who got out of the car.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank Bill and Karen Palmer, of Bogie’s Restaurant and Bogie’s Murderous Mystery Tours, Philip DeGrave, Nicola Andrews, and Bob Madison, real people all, for taking time from their busy schedules in order to appear in this book.
All the other characters and incidents are fictitious, as is the nation of St. David’s Island and the Caribbean Comet. Any resemblance to any real persons, ships, countries, incidents, dogs, etc., is strictly coincidental.
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copyright © 1988 by William L. DeAndrea
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