A Favour For The King – Chapter Six Monday, May 18, 1925 – Penobscot River, Lincoln: After our recent shocking encounter it was a very quiet journey upriver. Having escaped the clutches of Razorshins by the skin of our scalp, we made the short trip to the village of Lincoln sticking as close the middle…
A Favour For The King – Chapter Five
A Favour For The King – Chapter Five Saturday, May 16, 1925 – Rocksport, Maine: Ed Berkeley had been gored by the teeth of that foul back serpentine beast and was comatose. Sheesh! Anyone with a softer head would have been dead. He was lucky though I doubt he would have seen it that way….
A Favour For The King – Chapter Four
A Favour For The King – Chapter Four Friday, May 15, 1925 – Penobscot River, Maine: The sun had raised high in the pale blue late spring sky as we returned to Indian Island with our human cargo stored safely away below decks. Taking no chances with that filthy beast, Cagle got the full treatment…
A Favour For The King – Chapter Three
A Favour For The King – Chapter Three Thursday, May 14, 1925 – Penobscot River, Maine: About 12 miles upstream from Bangor on the Penobscot River. McGee, Cherry and MacNifey decided to go back for the injured lumberjack, recently one of four of the Clenton brothers but now the only one. What the hell were…
A Favour For The King – Chapter Two
A Favour For The King – Chapter Two Tuesday 12th May 1925 – Bangor, Maine: Bangor, Maine. Cherry still wasn’t at all sure about this job. He wanted to get a handle on the Solomon family business in Bangor so he persuaded the others to join him on a late night trip to some warehouses…
A Favour For The King – Chapter One
A Favour For The King – Chapter One Monday 4th May 1925 – Boston: Back in Boston it was back to normal. Which was most welcome after all the recent strangeness. There was still a little tension with the Gustin Gang of Boston but it wasn’t anything too much to worry about. Wasn’t like we…
The Fixer From Boston – Chapter Thirteen – Epilogue
The Fixer From Boston – Chapter Thirteen Saturday 25th April 1925 – Epilogue: 06:00am – Wiseacre’s Estate It was dawn on Saturday 25th April 1925. The unnatural, clammy, dank fog had lifted just as quickly as it had first manifested leaving a bright clear sky. There was no sign of strange Byakhee creatures upon which…
The Fixer From Boston – Chapter Twelve
The Fixer From Boston – Chapter Twelve Friday 17th April 1925 – The Decline and Fall of Jimmy Wiseacre: 10:00pm – Going For Wiseacre – Continued Entering Wiseacre’s ostentatious country retreat through the shattered remains of the double front doors, McGee and McNifey enter the lobby area, taking care to keep under the footprint of…
The Fixer From Boston – Chapter Eleven
The Fixer From Boston – Chapter Eleven Friday 17th April 1925 – Driving Around Atlantic City: 10:00pm – Going For Wiseacre Showing mercy is what separates us from the goon squad. They’d tell you it’s a weakness, but what splashing the milk of human kindness has got us is a sawbones to patch up a…
The Fixer From Boston – Chapter Ten
The Fixer From Boston – Chapter Ten Friday 17th April 1925 – Driving Around Atlantic City: 05:00am – Drawing Out Wiseacre’s Men The air is crisp and cold. A steady but persistent wind drives its way across the grey coastal landscape forcing the Fixer’s crew to button up their collars and turn their backs on…