Category Archives: Novella

Max Mann and the Black Widow – Part 7

August 10, 2010 – 9:36 pm

Part 1 (to start at the beginning)
The Client
The Butler
Part 2
The Associate
The Notebook
Part 3
The Cop
The Reporter
Part 4

The Boss
The Old Flame
Part 5
The Maid
The Sister
Part 6
The Beagle
Part 7
The Waitress
I took Bruno down to the ruins of Plumb Orchard Fine Used Books and let him have another sniff of the shoes. He lead me right to the spot out [...]

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Max Mann and the Black Widow – Part 6

August 3, 2010 – 9:45 pm

Part 1 (to start at the beginning)
The Client
The Butler
Part 2
The Associate
The Notebook
Part 3
The Cop
The Reporter
Part 4

The Boss
The Old Flame
Part 5
The Maid
The Sister
Part 6
The Beagle
As soon as she left the office I broke out the yellow pages and started searching for a dog. I had told the dame that I had picked up a scent hound, [...]

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Max Mann and the Black Widow – Part 5

July 27, 2010 – 9:49 pm

Part 1 (to start at the beginning)
The Client
The Butler
Part 2
The Associate
The Notebook
Part 3
The Cop
The Reporter
Part 4

The Boss
The Old Flame
Part 5
The Maid
I tooled on over to #17 to see what the results of my little conversation with the insurance agent would be. I parked on Oakwood, just around the corner, where I could keep a discrete [...]

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Max Mann and the Black Widow – Part 3

July 13, 2010 – 12:05 am

Part 1 (to start at the beginning)
The Client
The Butler
Part 2
The Associate
The Notebook
Part Three
The Cop
The doc down at St. Joe’s told me my knee wasn’t broken, just bruised, strained, and dislocated. Funny, the news didn’t make me feel any better. My ribs were another matter. I had one broken and two cracked ribs. And a big [...]

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Max Mann and the Black Widow – Part 2

July 6, 2010 – 10:01 pm

Part 1 (to start at the beginning)
The Client
The Butler
The Associate
The Plumb Orchard Shopping Center was not really much of a shopping center, it was nothing more than a fancy strip mall catering to the upscale neighborhoods of town. The bookstore was at the far end of the strip, beyond the oriental furnishings company and Betty’s [...]

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Max Mann and the Black Widow – Part 1

June 29, 2010 – 6:55 am

The Client
I was just about to bite into my foot-long hot dog when I heard the door to the outer office jingle.
“Anyone here?” She had a deep throaty voice, full of self assurance. There was nothing tentative about her in finding the outer office empty. I heard her step in and close the door.
“In here!” [...]

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