Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Where’s Mrs. Bendouski? Page one.

Chapter 1
Bang, Bang, You’re Dead

Detective Scott Moss sat in his Mustang, parked at the top of Canyon Road in the Hollywood Hills, just past the switchback. It gave him a perfect view, straight into the bedroom of the expensive home across the narrow divide. He zoomed his camera’s telephoto lens in on the master bedroom window.
Through the lens, Scott could see a man and a woman in bed. The man was standing, buck-naked on the bed doing a Tarzan yell, while the woman was lying beneath him, laughing.
He could see the woman completely, but from his angle the top of the window obscured the man’s head and shoulders. “Come on you jerk. I need to see if it’s you.”
As the mystery man dropped on his bed partner, Scott took a shot and groaned, “Ah, rats, it is you, Upton. I was actually hoping your wife was wrong about you for her sake, you jackass.”

He shot, zoomed out, shot another frame, took a final shot, and rested the big telephoto lens on the window frame. “Mrs. Upton is going to be just so thrilled to see these pictures.” Scott dropped his head and muttered, “And I have to show them to her. Damn this sucks.”

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