Dumpster Girl - Chapter 2 (standard:mystery, 418 words) [2/3] show all parts
Author: Christopher Connolly	Added: Apr 08 2008	Views/Reads: 2729/0	Part vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
Will Leo discover the identity of Dumpster Girl and will this lead to a shocking connection to his wife's death?

The next day Leo arrived into headquarters to find a note on his desk
from his boss saying "See me immediately!!!" Leo groaned, three 
exclamation marks meant she was really ticked off about something. 
Linda had taken over as department chief six months ago and she was 
really cracking some nuts around the place. He walked to her office and 
knocked on the open door. 

Linda swung around in her chair, she was on the phone, he couldn't help
but notice her long tan legs, muscled from tennis and hiking. As he 
waited he heard the faint sounds of the orchestra practising in the 
opera house across from the building. He listened carefully, head 
cocked to one side like a springer spaniel and nodded in satisfaction. 
Puccini's La Boheme if he wasn't misaken. Dammit, Puccini reminded him 
of Susan and that wonderful night they had spent at the Metropolitan in 
New York. Susan had been uncultured when they first met but he 
patiently introduced her to the world of arts and music and before long 
she knew her Beethoven from her Bach. 

Linda signalled to him to come back later and he went down to the
changing rooms, a place he never relished, too many towel whippings had 
made him wary of the cynical brutes he had to work with. Today there 
were three of them, sniggering over a smutty magazine and they looked 
up when he opened his locker. One of them nudged the others and asked 
'How's your wife Leo, oh I forgot, she's dead" before laughing with his 
primitive friends. Leo shook his head and despaired. You were more 
likely to find a Hegel than a Hefner in his locker. Just as he was 
about to snap a retort, he heard the breathless voice of Stu, his new 
partner. Stu was a fresh faced rookie, desperate to impress but had the 
makings of a good cop. "Leo, wait til you hear this" Stu said, 
brandishing a piece of paper "That girl we found in the dumpster, well 
she's not your usual crack head junkie, she's the daugher of Big 
Benny!" Leo frowned, Big Benny was the owner of numerous casinos and 
nightclubs in Vegas. He was straight as a bench and didn't tolerate 
fools. He had come to Susan's funeral and had complimented Leo on his 
saxophone playing, saying it was very moving. 

This didn't make sense, Leo slammed his locker door shut and said "Come
on Stu, we've got to make a house call" 


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