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- Title: Harry D'Lacey
- Author : Clive Carr
- Release Date : January 26, 2020
- Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 435 KB
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Up until a couple of days ago, I was just another lowly paid Private Investigator who spent most of his time either following unfaithful spouses, or tracing those who had suddenly gone missing because they owed someone else a lot of money. Now I know to a lot of people that might not sound like the most exciting of jobs they could be doing, and definitely not the kind of thing most people think of when someone mentions that they are a private detective. And that's just it, I'm not a private detective, I'm a private investigator and as far as I'm concerned that type of work suites me right down to the ground, basically because it is pretty easy to do and sometimes if I play my cards right, the money ain't that bad either.
You see, I never ever really wanted to be one of those hardnosed types who like to live their life on the edge by chasing down the bad guys and facing danger at every turn… Ok, I admit it, there was a time when I did want to do that, but it only took a couple of beatings for me to realise that in the long run it really wasn't worth all the pain. No, it made much more sense to take on the kind of work where the worst I might suffer, was a slap on the cheek and possibly some unrepeatable insult aimed at either my winning personality or the marital status of my parents.
So you can imagine what I must have thought when I woke up to discover, that not only was I being implicated in the suspected kidnapping of a prominent businessman, simply because I've been having an ongoing relationship with his wife for quite a while now. But I was also being fitted up as the prime suspect in the murder of a crippled,… Sorry, I mean disabled war veteran, just because I have also been having a sort of 'on off' relationship with his wife also for quite some time.
Now of course, I can understand how some people might think, that even if I'm not guilty of those crimes, because of the way I've been playing about, I deserve everything I'm going to get. But personally, I'm not of the same mind, as I believe that justice would much better be served if the real culprits where found and made to pay for their crimes. The only trouble is, at this moment in time, I haven't got a clue of how I'm going to do it. And that's not just because my mind is completely befuddled with drink and the kind of smoke that both I and Robert Mitchum are always happy to endorse. No, perish the thought, as some people might say. It's because, -and I'm not joking here, -at this moment in time, I honestly can't think of one single person I might know who could hate me so much as to want to frame me for such a crime. I mean, what the hell could I have ever done to make me the target of someone else's diabolical scheme.
Well, not to worry, whatever it is, now Harry D'Lacey is on the case, it won't be too long until the real killer and kidnappers are discovered and brought to justice. All I need to do first is maybe sit back and have another drink and smoke whilst I think about it and what I should maybe do next, as unlike most people, I really do function just as well whether I'm half cut or not. The trouble is, I can very rarely leave it at just being half cut and that's my problem.