‘It’s the guy with no sense of humour.’
‘I remember – face like a burst football.’
‘That’s the one. Are you still up for a meal?’
‘When?’
‘Tomorrow night.’
‘I can probably find something to wear by then.’
‘Got a home address?’
He wrote down the address she gave him.
‘Pick you up about seven?’
‘I’m getting hungry already.’
‘I’ll leave you to choose the place.’
‘You bet.’
He put the phone down. He’d go to the airport straight after lunch with Rae.
Mary Lou said, ‘We need more people.’
‘Employ two more. Give them each three of the six cases and let’s see how they do.’
‘And you’re going to Staten Island again?’
‘So it would seem.’
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Acknowledgement is made of the Somerton Man Case, the details of which were used as the backdrop for this story. Also, my thanks and admiration go to GC at: http://tamamshud.blogspot.co.uk/
who found the microcode.
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Follow Tom and Rae’s further exploits in:
Souls of the Dead
(Tom Gabriel 3)
Due out in 2015
About the Author
Tim Ellis was born in the bowels of Hammersmith Hospital, London, on a dark and stormy night, and now lives in Cheshire with his wife and three Shitzus. In-between, he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps at eighteen and completed twenty-two years service, leaving in 1993 having achieved the rank of Warrant Officer Class 1 (Regimental Sergeant Major). Since then, he settled in Essex, and worked in secondary education as a senior financial manager, in higher education as an associate lecturer/tutor at Lincoln and Anglia Ruskin Universities, and as a consultant for the National College of School Leadership. His final job, before retiring to write fiction full time in 2009, was as Head and teacher of Behavioural Sciences (Psychology/Sociology) in a secondary school. He has a PhD and an MBA in Educational Management, and an MA in Education.
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Genghis Khan
Warrior: Path of Destiny
Warrior: Scourge of the Steppe
The Knowledge of Time
Second Civilisation
Orc Quest
Book I: Prophecy
Harte & KP
Solomon’s Key
Parish & Richards
A Life for a Life
The Wages of Sin
The Flesh is Weak
The Shadow of Death
His Wrath is Come
The Breath of Life
The Dead Know Not
Be Not Afraid
Through a Glass Darkly
A Lamb to the Slaughter
Silent in the Grave
In the Twinkling of an Eye
Quigg
The Twelve Murders of Christmas
Body 13
The Graves at Angel Brook
The Skulls Beneath Eternity Wharf
The Terror at Grisly Park
The Haunting of Bleeding Heart Yard
The Enigma of Apocalypse Heights (Novella)
Tom Gabriel
Footprints of the Dead
Whispers of the Dead
Stone & Randall
Jacob’s Ladder
The Gordian Knot
Josiah Dark
Dark Christmas (Novella)
Inigo & Tig
As You Sow, So Shall You Reap (Novella)
Cyrus Kane
An Ill Wind (Novella)
Untended Treasures
Where do you want to go today?
Winter of my Heart (Poetry)
With Love Project – The Occupier
The Killing Sands (Anthology)
Raga Man (Short Story)
The Writer’s A-Z of Body Language (Non-fiction)
Summer of my Soul (Poetry)
Also planned for 2014/2015:
Mortis Obscura: Scavenger of Souls (Farthing & Trask 1)
The Timekeeper's Apprentice
A Time to Kill (Parish & Richards 14)
Deceit is in the Heart (Parish & Richards 15)
Orc Quest Book II: The Last Human
The Sword of Damocles (Stone & Randall 3)
The Song of Solomon (Harte & KP 2)
Dark Matter (Josiah Dark 2)
The Corpse at Highgate Cemetery (Quigg 8)
Chains of Illusion (Cyrus Kane 2)
Souls of the Dead (Tom Gabriel 3)