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eBook Category: Mystery/Crime
eBook Description: When ex-nun Lynn James takes over her late father's sleazy Hollywood Boulevard detective agency, she has two goals: to make some money and to make up for lost time when it comes to life experience. She thinks she's meet both goals when cute Gary Michaels hires her to find his runaway daughter. Too bad that when Lynn finds her, the girl is dead. Lynn can't imagine how far down the mean streets she'll have to travel to unravel this perplexing, and ever-darkening, crime.

eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Red Herring Mystery Magazine, 1994
Fictionwise Release Date: June 2005

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Words: 5165
Reading time: 14-20 min.
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It isn't unusual to find a private detective on Hollywood Boulevard--unless she happens to be a nun.

Correction, ex-nun. I got out of the life when my father died and I realized I only went into it to spite him, amoral hedonist that he was. Adolescent rebellion shouldn't be the basis of crucial decisions, though I'm still fuzzy on how they should be made.

But, wanting a clean break from the past, I have taken over my father's detective agency, which is the only thing he left me, apart from his debts. It's not as crazy as it sounds. I worked there summers during college and got pretty good at tracking down folks who didn't want to be found.

But I'm getting ahead of myself. My name is Lynn James, current owner of the James T. James Detective Agency. Not as grand as you might think. I do have a two-room suite of offices, one of which doubles as my bedroom, and a few sticks of furniture, but that's it. Everything that remotely resembled an asset, I hocked to pay last month's rent. Don't ask how I'm going to cover this month's.

Clients are not breaking down the door. No one believes a nun belongs in this kind of work, and everyone knows. Hollywood is really just a small town, if they have small towns in hell. Total degenerates beam at my wholesome demeanor and censor everything they say in front of me. What a joke. I taught high school for eight years--there's nothing I haven't heard.

"Nothing" also describes what I've done. I'm really eager for some experience now, and naturally, for ready cash. This neighborhood did provide a solution to both problems, but lacking a hot pink tube skirt, I decided to pass.