Epilogue.
JANICE AND KENNETH Severtson got a good lawyer, but not good enough. I had a lawyer, Tycinker himself, who cut a deal with the Orlando prosecutor. I testified. I walked with no charges. The Severtsons made a deal and pleaded to conspiracy to commit murder. Kenneth Jr. and Sydney went to Charleston with Janice"s sister.
With Trasker dead and my statement, Viviase didn"t go after Hoffmann. When enough newspapers and mail had piled up at Hoffmann"s gate, a neighbor called the police. They came. Hoffmann couldn"t be found, nothing seemed to be missing except for the baseball collection.
No one in Sarasota has seen or heard from Kevin Hoffmann, wherever or whoever he might be now.
Three months later there was a hotly contested special election to fill the place of the deceased William Trasker on the commission. One of the biggest voter turnouts in Sarasota history. A Hispanic named Gomez who owned a big auto-repair business was elected. There was talk of another vote on Midnight Pa.s.s.
I did my stand-up act for Ann Horowitz on a Wednesday morning.
"You"re funny," she said.
"I"m not trying to be."
"That is precisely why you are. Comedy, like life much of the time, depends on timing and delivery. In your case, you are afflicted with Ca.s.sandra"s curse, doomed to say funny things, which you do not find funny. We"ll work on that."
Later that morning, after I had discussed it with Ann, I called Sally and told her I"d be Darrell Caton"s Big Brother.
Life went on.
By Stuart M. Kaminsky.
Lew Fonesca Mysteries.
Vengeance Retribution.
Midnight Pa.s.s Abe Lieberman Mysteries Lieberman"s Folly.
Lieberman"s Choice Lieberman"s Day.
Lieberman"s Thief Lieberman"s Law.
The Big Silence Not Quite Kosher Toby Peters Mysteries.
Bullet for a Star Murder on the Yellow Brick Road You Bet Your Life The Howard Hughes Affair Never Cross a Vampire High Midnight.
Catch a Falling Clown He Done Her Wrong The Fala Factor.
Down for the Count The Man Who Shot Lewis Vance Smart Moves Think Fast, Mr. Peters.
Buried Caesars Poor b.u.t.terfly The Melting Clock The Devil Met a Lady Tomorrow Is Another Day Dancing in the Dark A Fatal Gla.s.s of Beer.
A Few Minutes Past Midnight To Catch a Spy Mildred Pierced Porfiry Rostnikov Novels.
Death of a Dissident Black Knight in Red Square Red Chameleon A Cold, Red Sunrise A Fine Red Rain.
Rostnikov"s Vacation The Man Who Walked Like a Bear Death of a Russian Priest Hard Currency Blood and Rubles Tarnished Icons.
The Dog Who Bit a Policeman Fall of a Cosmonaut Murder on the Trans-Siberian Express.
Nonseries Novels When the Dark Man Calls Exercise in Terror Short Story Collections Opening Shots.
Hidden and Other Stories Biographies Don Siegel: Director.
Clint Eastwood John Huston, Maker of Magic Coop: The Life and Legend of.
Gary Cooper Other Nonfiction American Film Genres American Television Genres.
(with Jeffrey Mahan) Basic Filmmaking.
(with Dana Hodgdon) Writing for Television (with Mark Walker).
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this novel are either fict.i.tious or are used fict.i.tiously.
MIDNIGHT Pa.s.s: A LEW FONESCA MYSTERY.
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