Taking the Fifth (28 page)
Authors: J. A. Jance
Joanna Brady Mysteries
Desert Heat
Tombstone Courage
Shoot/Don’t Shoot
Dead to Rights
Skeleton Canyon
Rattlesnake Crossing
Outlaw Mountain
Devil’s Claw
Paradise Lost
Partner in Crime
Exit Wounds
J. P. Beaumont Mysteries
Until Proven Guilty
Injustice for All
Trial by Fury
Taking the Fifth
Improbable Cause
A More Perfect Union
Dismissed with Prejudice
Minor in Possession
Payment in Kind
Without Due Process
Failure to Appear
Lying in Wait
Name Withheld
Breach of Duty
Birds of Prey
Partner in Crime
Long Time Gone
and
Hour of the Hunter
Kiss of the Bees
Day of the Dead
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
TAKING THE FIFTH. Copyright © 2006 by J.A. Jance. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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CONTENTS
The aid car was there, sitting next to the railroad…
Bellevue Avenue East runs north and south along the western…
Doc Baker’s mood hadn’t improved any by the time I…
Two detectives from Narcotics stopped by a short time later…
In too much of a hurry to walk or battle…
That was the summer some of our more bright-eyed city…
The Fifth Avenue Theater sits on the street for which…
I met Al at the department and we made a…
When we got back to the department, we contacted the…
The nap I had taken during PeeWee Latham’s act now…
Tired as I was, with the length of time I’d…
It seemed only moments later when I opened my eyes,…
I drove to the department with my mind in a…
By the time I left the Pike Street Mission, I…
Sergeant Watson was gunning for me when I stepped through…
When I got back to the car, I sat for…
I drove back to the department, feeling uneasy. Something was…
It was six o’clock when I found Mavis Davis’s house…
I turned things over in my mind as I drove…
The marquee lights outside the theater were brightly lit. I…
In Jasmine’s dressing room a huge trunk stood empty, its…
There was a flurry of activity at the top of…
I ended up offering the photographer a ride home. For…
Naturally, B. W. Wainwright wasn’t in the phone book. Neither was Roger…
We came flying through the Montlake underpass that leads from…
We went straight to Harborview. I didn’t want to, but…
When Ed Donaldson of the Los Angeles office of the…