About the Book:
Cable Car Mystery
Author: Greg Messel
Publisher: Sunbreaks Publishing
Pages: 180
Genre: Mystery/Romance
Author: Greg Messel
Publisher: Sunbreaks Publishing
Pages: 180
Genre: Mystery/Romance
On the hottest day of the year in San
Francisco in 1959, Private Detectives Sam and Amelia
Slater are contemplating fleeing the city for their Stinson
Beach house. However, when Sam decides
to take a cable car ride to run some errands on the lazy summer day, he’s
suddenly thrust into the spotlight when he rescues a woman who fell onto the
busy street. Sam pulls the mysterious red haired woman out of the path of an
oncoming cable car in the nick of time. The entire incident is captured by a
newspaper photographer who splashes Sam’s heroics all over the front page. Sam
is troubled not only by his new status as a city hero, but by the rescued
woman’s plea for help. She whispers to Sam that she didn’t fall from the cable
car but was pushed. She is frightened and disappears into the crowd before Sam
can get more details. A San Francisco
newspaper launches a campaign to find the mystery woman and Sam hopes to cross
paths with her again.
Meanwhile, Amelia is troubled by the sudden disappearance of
her elderly neighbor. Two thuggish younger men who now occupy the house next
door say he took a sudden trip. One night when she’s alone Amelia grabs a
flashlight and finds some disturbing clues in her neighbor’s garage. What
really happened to her neighbor? Amelia is determined to find out.
Award winning author Greg Messel spins a new tale of
intrigue in Cable Car Mystery, the sixth book in the Sam Slater Mystery
series set in at the 1950s in San Francisco.
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In the coming days Amelia
would try to recall the precise details of the events she witnessed in the
middle of the night on Wednesday.
Amelia would never be able
to pinpoint exactly what woke her from a sound sleep at 2 a.m. As she rolled onto her back and listened, she
heard a funny noise inside her house.
Amelia looked at Sam who was
undisturbed and sleeping soundly. She heard the noise again. It seemed to be
coming from inside the house. A gentle banging noise, like two pieces of wood
colliding.
Maybe it was her recently
adopted Siamese cat Aloysius, prowling around and getting into mischief. Amelia
knew the tomcat roamed the house at night and slept much of the day. Sam and
Amelia’s bedroom was located on the second floor of their posh townhouse on Leavenworth Street.
The cat’s first choice for a
night time activity was to sleep between Sam and Amelia. Sam quickly vetoed
that notion and shut the door on Aloysius at night. The Siamese cat then spent
his time pursuing nocturnal adventures.
Amelia gently rolled out of
bed and when her feet touched the cool floor, it sent a chill through her. She
was wearing a short, yellow, baby doll nightie which provided little warmth
when she was not under the covers with Sam.
She heard the noise
again.
It seemed to be coming from
the spare bedroom. Amelia crept down the hall and reached for the knob on the
bedroom door. She hesitated. What if there was an intruder? Maybe she should go
get her gun or wake up Sam.
She then decided to proceed.
Amelia grabbed the door knob and slowly turned it. Amelia felt a suction
grabbing the door making it harder to open. She threw her shoulder into
the door and popped it open. The bedroom was dark and cold. Immediately she saw
the source of the noise and the cool temperatures.
The trademark San Francisco wind had come up during the night and it was
howling. The blinds on an open window were slapping against the window
frame pushed along by the stiff breeze.
Amelia hurried to the window
and pulled up the blinds. The wind penetrated her skimpy nightgown and chilled
her to her core. She reached up to push the window closed but stopped when she
noticed Aloysius sitting calmly on the second story roof looking out at the
horizon.
“Aloysius, get over here,”
Amelia said in a stern whisper. Aloysius turned his head briefly to give her a
condescending look and then ignored her, resuming looking out on the horizon.
Amelia was freezing but didn’t want to leave Aloysius out in the wind
storm.
Then something caught her
eye beyond the cat on the roof. This was the window which offered a full view
of George’s back yard and his house. The car she had seen in the driveway the
last several days was running and backed up to the garage with it’s trunk open.
Despite being essentially
naked and buffeted by the wind, Amelia strained her eyes to see the strange
figures. In the faint light from the headlights and the light in the
trunk, Amelia could see the large bald man, the one she had seen looking out
the window, struggling with something in the garage. Then a second man emerged
from the garage. He was a husky square-looking man with closely cropped hair,
who looked very formable.
The two men now emerged into
full view at the rear of the car. They were carrying a large, oblong object,
which was wrapped in a plaid blanket. There were two ropes tied around the
object.
The two men slammed the trunk
closed and quickly got in the car. Amelia stood at her bedroom window
transfixed watching the taillights disappear into the night as they drove away.
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About the Author:
Greg Messel has spent most of his
adult life interested in writing, including a career in the newspaper business.
He won a Wyoming Press Association Award as a columnist and has contributed
articles to various magazines. Greg lives in Edmonds, Washington on Puget Sound with his wife Jean DeFond.
Greg has written nine novels. His
latest is “Cable Car Mystery" which is the sixth in a series of mysteries set in 1959 San Francisco. “Shadows In The Fog,” ”Fog City Strangler,"
"San Francisco Secrets," "Deadly Plunge" are sequels to the
first book in the series "Last of the Seals." His other three novels
are "Sunbreaks," "Expiation" and "The Illusion of
Certainty."
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