The Front

The man known on the street as "Pink"'s eyes nearly popped out of his head when he saw Lt. Sissy Van Buren and her three detectives enter his bar of choice...The high priced and tony Mink's Supper Club...

 The bartender and several male patrons turned their heads too and watched attentively as the four women took seats at the bar..

Sissy ordered a drink and then Angie ,Carlotta and Sirena followed suit...

 All eyes were on them....I have been told that the CID has some of the most attractive women on the force....I am inclined to agree....

''Ladies..Ladies...Ladies....Lay deeeeeeeeeees..How is everyone doing?" said Pink...

''We are fine Mr. Pink...We came to see you!" said Sissy....

The Bartender was all teeth.....Just grinning at Pink's good fortune and shaking his head.....Pink smiled sheepishly...

''Sissy you are wearing that damn red dress girl...I just want to tell you...Lawd today!"he said just ogling Sissy...

''I know you have a private booth Pink...Can we go somewhere uh private?" asked Sissy alluringly...

Pink pointed to a booth in the back....

"After you... "he said.

Angie,Carlotta and Sirena took their drinks and followed...Pink looked at the bartender...

"Ray, send back a bottle of my regular and all of their drinks are on me...." he said.

Ray the bartender winked and shook his head thinking...."I don't know what Pink does..but he sure keeps some nice looking ladies around him."

"So...Siss, I figure you're here because you need information about something..."said Pink as he and the girls quaffed down their drinks...

"Pink this is delicious...I love it.."said Carlotta.

"I love you Carlotta, shame you're married baby!" he said...

"So Pink...I'm inquiring about a Tiara...worth 5 million or more that went missing a few days ago.." said Sissy sweetly...

At the mention of the Tiara...Pink's eyes got wide...He looked around to make sure no known playas were around and he leaned in and began to whisper...

"Damn Siss, when you want information ,it's major....Listen that damn Tiara is the talk of the streets..Three well known dudes got popped behind that...I suppose that's what you're here for right? The murders!"he said.

"You said he was sharp Sissy."said Sirena..

"Look...There is this guy...Christopher Marlowe...He's a New Yorker...Owns a chain of Hotels and Motels...He's in to other things too...Wire fraud, Credit Card Fraud, Identity Theft....Even sells a little Heroin and a little Coke from time to time...He's having cash flow problems...In straight lingo..He's about to go belly up...Well he met this pretty little number from the U.K.... Her name is Margeret Lago ,She's got a lot of money....She says that Tiara was in her family and her great grandparents had to sell it when they went bottom up during the depression...Anyway..She runs their affairs now and they are flush again...She wants that Tiara back in the worst way...Christopher Marlowe and his lawyer..a man named James Magnus said they could get it back...The deal was...If they got it back...She would partner with him ,pay off his debt and own half of his hotels and motels in the U.S...His legitimate holdings....James Magnus, his lawyer hired a top shot caller, who hired a crew to snatch the Tiara...but word on the street is...Another playa...an out of towner named Reese Wilkins...wanted in on the Snatch too...on account of ,he's supposedly madly in love with this broad....He's bad news Siss...He don't mind killin if that's what needs to be done..I hear he's got seven bodies on him in London..."said Pink.

"He's got three here in Philly..." said Sissy....

"Any idea where we can find him?" asked Carlotta...

"Not at all...I hear he doesn't stay in any hotels..."said Pink..

"He's from London...He has no connection to this city....He's got to stay somewhere, with someone?" said Sirena..

"Well he'd stand out like a sore thumb around all you soul sisters and soul brothers...So If I were you..I'd look in Fishtown, South Philly, The Great Northeast..Kensington...places where you know...White people hang out. I do know one thing...The babe...She's coming to Philly this Saturday....It's in the papers...Some Society gig a Penns Landing...You might want to be there....If he's got that Tiara...He's going to want to hand it off then."said Pink..

Angie cracked up laughing....

"Pink...How do you know so much?" she asked.

"Information is the most valuable commodity Angie..." he said....

They all raised their glasses.


II-

While the girls were laughing and having drinks with Pink...I was at Headquarters with FBI Deputy Special Agent in charge, Sharon Hopkins and the guys...

"I triangulated all of the Traffic ,ATM,Business and Street Cameras in that area and in a 15 block radius of your killer and of time period directly before and after your triple murder and I think I got something."said Sharon..

"Wow..that was fast Sharon.."said Duke.

"Not that I'm bragging...Really I'm not..but my computers and camera scrubbing equipment is a little more up to date than your stuff.."said Sharon....

"No problem with me...Anything that helps .We love your stuff!"said Tyriq....

"Hope you guys just don't love me for my toys..." joked Sharon....

"Course Not Darlin.."laughed Jimmy....

Hop put his arms around his wife and kissed her neck and whispered...

"I love ALL OF YOUR UH TOYS.....and uh when we come back...I hope to play with some of them..."he said..

"Ouuuuuuu..I like the sound of that baby.."she whispered in his ear....She had become incredibly aroused right now and she was trying hard to hide it...but she was blushing....

"There is our guy...coming out of that driveway...Just minutes after the killing...He's walking west....he dumps some things in that dumpster where we found em and he gets in that car.."I said..

"Nice..I got the license plate of that car...let me run it down." said Jimmy...

"Oh My god...we got his entire route...Modern science...And there is where he lays his head...In Mayfair...Wow!This is incredible..."said Tyriq..

"Let me get a warrant....I'll text Judge Stevens right now."I said.

"That car was reported stolen...Last week..."said Jimmy...

"Doesn't matter...we got an address.. Let's tool up boys...Kevlar,Trauma Plates.." said Duke..

"Call the Tactical Squad Boys...I hear this guy is a real dangerous cat...Will throw down and doesn't mind killing cops." said Tyriq..

"I got the Warrant...Judge Stevens just sent it over on the Fax Machine."I said.

Tyriq,Duke, Jimmy and Hop and 15 Tactical Squad Officers found the house that the killer known as Reese resided in and called for him to come out...

"POLICE!!! WE HAVE A WARRANT FOR YOUR ARREST!!! COME OUT WITH YOUR HANDS UP!!!" screamed Tyriq...

There was no sound from  the house...

"Knock it down"said Duke...

The Tactical Squad boys knocked the door off the hinges and they rushed in followed by Hop and Jimmy...

 "CLEAR" yelled Hop as they rushed the first floor..

"CLEAR" yelled Jimmy as they rushed the second floor...

I stood outside watching with Hazel and  one officer....

Tyriq walked outside and shook his head...

"Nothing man...and by nothing I mean no furniture, nobody...no Tiara...Nothing...This place is as dry as a bone..." he said.

"I keep getting the feeling that we got snookered.." said Duke..

"Well if we did...He was good...Both of the street cameras on the other side of this house were disabled yesterday....He came here and walked right out the back and into nowhere.."said Jimmy...

"And from the smell of bleach in here...you're not going to find fingerprints or DNA...By the way...I found the car around back....Nothing in it and it's been bleached and wiped down.."said Hop..

"Still..I'll have my team take the house and the car apart piece by piece anyway...We might get lucky."said Hazel...

I seriously doubted that....Our Killer had eluded us once again...

III-

 Later that afternoon in the conference room we told Sissy and the girls about our day...

''Well I'm glad to know you guys weren't just sitting around tossing the football across the desks while we were gone."joked Sissy, who was the only one who hadn't changed her clothes...She looked good in that red dress...

''Some of us were actually doing some police work." said Tyriq.

"Yeah...Some of us were."added Jimmy...

"And what did you get? The same thing we got..Nothing that we didn't already know."said Sirena..

She was joking, but she was right..

''Wow this out of towner is really elusive." said Angie..

"Car was stolen and the house was rented by someone using a phony name and after the rent was paid...The account was closed and drained..All by computer..."said Duke..

"He's got to be staying somewhere...With someone...A girlfriend or someone.." said Carlotta...

Sissy sighed...

"He can't go anywhere until Saturday...His missus is coming here to some charity event at Penns Landing..That's our next best chance to catch this clown."said Sissy. She sighed..."It's late...I'm flying to the prison tomorrow to see Barbara Dennison's execution with Captain Cantrell...So Good night everybody...Maybe you'll have some good news for me when I get back."said Sissy.

 "Hey..Where is Sharon and Hop?" asked Carlotta..

I don't know...maybe they left early.." I said as we all headed out..It had been a rough day..

IV-

 FBI Deputy Special Agent in Charge Sharon Ferrell-Hopkins  was in fact in the sub-basement of our very building with her husband, Detective Tony Hopkins..Carlotta and I had found this sub-basement with it's own bed and a small locker and chair two years ago...I often wondered if somebody had actually lived or stayed down here...Unknown to the cops ,detectives and federal agents who worked above.

"You still want to play with my toys?" she asked salaciously...

 "I sure do baby."said Hop as he opened her blouse and unhooked her black lace bra and began to slowly lick and then suck her nice ample breasts....

"Ummmmmmm girl....."he muttered...

"Ouuuuuu baby.."she cooed as she opened his trousers and softly fondled his now erect penis....

They hungrily kissed each other....

Hop took his suit jacket off and his shirt and trousers......

"I'm so glad you wore a skirt today..." he said to Sharon as he lifted her skirt up and unzippered it..

She continued to kiss him passionately......

"Ouuu Tony I love you soo much, you just don't know.." she said as they continued to kiss passionately and breath heavily....

He entered her slowly....She was good and wet and warm..... They got into a nice slow groove on the bed....

Four hours seemed to evaporate...

Four hours of sweet love making....

He had dreamed of this when he was in high school ,jockeying to walk her home, sending her birthday and Valentines Day cards and barely getting a thank you...

Over Carmen and Carlotta's house mooning over her and begging them to put in a good word for him...

He dreamed of this....of making love to her just once....He never in his wildest dreams knew he'd be married to her one day and practically working beside her...

"Ummmmmmm.." he grunted..

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuu..ohhhh my goodness..ouuuuuuu...Tony...Ohhhhhh" came her shrill voice..

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...""Ohhh baby, give it to meeeeee....ummmmmmph..."she moaned...

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.... Sharon......ouuuuuuuuuu, more, more... ohhhhhh..."

"Sock it to me Tony...ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...this feels sooo damn good...I needed this,ouuuuuuuuuu...you don't know how I needed this...ummmmmmm... "she moaned.

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh gooooddddddd lawdd it's soooo goood...ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh damnnn girl...ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh sweeeeet jesusssssssssss ..arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.."he cried ...out!!"Morrre...Morreee....morrre...ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.. "

"Tony..ouuuuuu..Tony....OHHHHHHH. Tony baby, I'm cumming...ohhhhh my goodness..ouuuuuuu!"she wailed...

She was sweating profusely....So was he.....

"Ohhhhhhh,ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, here it comes...here it comes....ohhhhhhhhhhhh." he yelled...

"Yesssssssssssssssssssssssssss..ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu, TONY!!!!" she yelled...

They were rocking so hard... they looked like they were going to break the legs off of the bed.......

They both began shaking and holding each other...They were both climaxing.....His bottom lip was quivering...She was shaking and sweating profusely....breathing heavily.....

"Oh My god, Tony!..ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.." she screamed.

"Sharon.....Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my god!"he screamed as he came harder than he had in awhile. She smiled sweetly at him......

"I love you!" she said softly....

"I love you too baby!" he said...

They both took deep breaths....he pulled out of her...

He pulled his boxers up and his trousers....He didn't bother to try and fix his shirt...Sharon surprisingly fixed his shirt and his tie for him...

She pulled her panties up and straightened out her dress and put her bra back on...She fixed her hair the best she could..

She turned and gave him a wet sloppy kiss...He held her for a long while,staring into her eyes....They found themselves surprisingly kissing again, a little longer and tenderly this time...

 "Let's get something to eat...I'm hungry..."said Sharon laying her head on his shoulder as they took the elevator up to ground level...

Hop looked around the parking lot...

''All the cars are gone...I guess everybody went home huh?"he said.

"Ya think?" she said and pulled him to her and kissed him passionately...and they both laughed.

 V-

Meanwhile, In Olde City Philadelphia...Two men sat behind the wheel of a car....They were staring at a
stylish 2016 BMW parked in the alleyway...

"Is that the car?" asked the man behind the steering wheel...

"Yeah,that's it...and that's him..." said the man in the passenger seat...

"Doesn't look like anybody is in it." said the man behind the wheel...

"Drive and park about a block away...Let me out....He's mine..." said the man in the passenger seat.

The driver did as he was told...

The Man who had been in the passenger seat cocked his .357 magnum and walked toward the car...

It was empty...It smelled like bleach...

He used a device the police use when someone is locked out of their car....He opened it and peered inside...

Nothing!

He popped the trunk...

Nothing!


Then he heard someone singing the Farmer and the Dell...


"The Farmer and the dell..The Farmer and the dell...Hi Ho the dairy Oh...The Farmer and the Dell..."

He turned around...It was eerily quiet.. He didn't see anything...Then he heard footsteps!

"Looking for something mate?" came the voice from behind of a man with an English Accent! It was Reese Wilkins!!!!



He turned...but it was already too late..

Reese Wilkins had a silencer...He fired two shots...both to the man's head...killing him instantly....A puddle of blood from the man's head ran behind the car....He took his .357 off of him and tucked it in his jacket...

He lifted the man's body and stuffed it in the trunk of the car and closed the trunk...


"The Farmer and the dell..The Farmer and the dell...Hi Ho the dairy Oh...The Farmer and the Dell..." he sang to himself as he walked away....

He looked at the car...." Nice Ride."

A few blocks away...The other man ,who had been driving was smoking a cigarette...He was startled when a man who he didn't know walked up to him....

"You're friend told me to tell you that he won't be returning mate..He uh kind of got held up." said the man with an English accent...Reese Wilkins!!!!

The man who had been driving dropped his cigarette and pulled out his .38 smokeless and fired one shot..

It hit the English man in the gut...

"BLIMY!! I DON'T BELIEVE IT!  I'VE BEEN BLOODY SHOT!!! ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I DON'T BELIEVE IT...I'VE BEEN SHOT!!!" he screamed and fired his gun with it's silencer three times..Two hit the man in the head and the other hit him in the chest...He fell into his car and promptly died...blood just running out of him across the front seat like a river...

The man with the english accent known as Reese Wilkins grabbed his stomach and ran out of the alley,leaving a trail of blood...

"Bloody Hell, the wanker actually shot me...Crimminy! I've been shot!!!" he moaned as he made his way into the Philadelphia afternoon...


TO BE CONTINUED!