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    The Barefoot Stiff

    By M. Ruth Myers

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    This mystery **short story** features characters from the author’s novels featuring depression-era private investigator Maggie Sullivan.

    A blonde in an expensive hat approaches Maggie at a dime store lunch counter, offering a staggering amount of money if the detective will meet a man who wants to hire her. Suspecting something amiss, Maggie refuses. But her empty bank account, plus curiosity, prompt her to turn up at the time and place appointed — only to encounter a body that’s still warm.

    Irked when the detectives questioning her only snicker at the leads she suggests, and even more so by their insinuation that she solves cases by batting her eyes instead of using her brains, Maggie baits a trap for the killer.

    He shows up at Maggie’s office ready to use a knife to get information he wants. But the gritty little private eye handles a .38 as competently as she does an emery board. The killer isn’t the only one involved in a lucrative crime... and Maggie wants the satisfaction of handing the police all the answers.

    Enjoy the historical atmosphere of a time before cell phones, and the company of a one-of-a-kind female sleuth.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherM. Ruth Myers
    Release dateAug 19, 2014
    ISBN9781310278402
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    The Barefoot Stiff
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    M. Ruth Myers

    Ruth is the author of more than a dozen books, in assorted genres, which have been translated, optioned for film and condensed for magazine publication. She currently writes the Maggie Sullivan mystery series, set in Dayton, Ohio, from 1938-1947 and featuring a female private investigator. Ruth and her husband have one grown daughter. They live in Ohio where they serve as domestic staff to an over-empowered cat.

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