By Peter C Byrnes
Book Synopsis
This is the 55th Novella in the series detailing the life and times of Detective Grade Four, Joseph Lind and his Partner, Detective Grade Three, Shelley Anne Shields.
A man’s body is tossed like garbage from a moving car. With his dying breath, the dead man walking manages to crawl to the nearest house to knock feebly before dying. The Deceased stabbed seven times with the same knife by seven unknown Assailants. With no identification and his disappearance never included in the Missing Persons Register, the Case slips down that greasy pole of inactivity to become a Cold Case.
Our two Murder Dees are given the Case to ‘fill out their day’. It would appear that from the highest echelons of Government, there is a noticeable effort for the two to dismiss the Case and have it returned to just another Cold Case that cannot proceed through lack of witnesses and evidence.
Who is this man and who are these persons ‘On High Street’ who do not want the Case to proceed?
What are they hiding?
Three deaths in one night at a Nursing Home for the Aged piques the interest of our two Detectives. While there are those who are suspicious of the coincidence, others are willing to accept these deaths as just another night’s consequence of such a place.
A different perspective is held by those in charge of the Establishment as death walks silently down the corridors of most Homes for the Aged.
