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A Nose for Trouble [MultiFormat]
eBook by Patricia Cirone
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eBook Category: Fantasy/Spiritual/Religion
eBook Description: Although Marina worked for a medium, she didn't believe in ghosts herself; she knew that Madame Fertaglio used gossip from the marketplace, along with drugs and incense, to produce her 'spirits.' But after Marina stayed out too late one night and got too close to a murder, what she believed no longer mattered.
eBook Publisher: Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Works Trust, Published: Sword & Sorceress 22, 2007
Fictionwise Release Date: April 2009
8 Reader Ratings:
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Words: 4913
Reading time: 14-19 min.
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It was with relief that she gathered up the basket and headed for the market to buy what was needed for dinner and the evening guests. As she moved from stall to stall, she kept her ears open for the gossip. Madame always wanted to know what was being talked about--some of it had a way of showing up in her readings.
Today the voices were hushed and excited...
Did you hear about the Peacemaker.... head bashed in ... Peacemaker! killed! not far from here! ... they say his head was mashed something awful ... brought the sniffers in ... say they're looking for a girl ... something to do with the sea ... a girl! how'd a girl kill a Peacemaker like that? ... no, sniffers say to look for a girl, and you know they're never wrong ... they're going to be bringing the sniffers to the docks, I hear, on account of the girl having something to do with the sea ... how can a girl have something to do with the sea? Can't be no sailor and haven't seen no foreign girls coming on a ship--would have heard about that ... death of a Peacemaker ... won't be any rest in the city, till they've caught someone for it, right or wrong!
Madame would certainly be interested in this! A death, and a violent one, and some foreign girl! A medium could hardly ask for something better to bring people flocking to her readings! All would be wondering if Madame would hear anything from the spirit world, and Madame would make certain that she dropped mysterious hints that would keep people coming back.
Marina went back to the stall that sold nuts. She would have to bake plenty of the little nut delicacies Madame liked to have on hand for her guests. It was as she was leaving the nut stall that she glanced up and saw the official, blue-bordered notice of the Peacemaker's murder pinned on the market notice board. It had a sketch of the man. Something about him looked familiar, and Marina pushed her way closer to look.
She gasped, as she realized it was the man from last night, the one who had hurried past her in the alleyway.
Marina felt a cold chill move down the back of her neck and settle like lead over her heart. She had been there last night. And now that she worked for Madame, she lived near the docks. And her name--her mam had told her that her name meant a pretty place where ships went, because her father had been a sailor. That had something to do with the sea. The sniffers were after her!
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