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Jeb Brack
Sep 8, 20151 min read
Don't Think This Is Heaven
The blur before his eyes resolved itself into the ceiling of the pool hall in Studs Fedora's building. Three concerned faces leaned over...
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Jeb Brack
Sep 1, 20151 min read
Studs? Studs, Can You Hear Me?
Looks like he's coming around... He's lost a lot of blood... Studs heard the words from far away. He felt as though he'd been...
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Jeb Brack
Aug 11, 20151 min read
Not A Scratch
Cara rushed into Studs Fedora's arms, trembling with fright. Studs felt himself trembling as well, but was it from the fight or from...
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Jeb Brack
Aug 4, 20151 min read
Laid Out
Studs wheeled and caught the second thug a stunning blow with the shovel. He raised it, ready to smash the guy's teeth, but stopped and...
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Jeb Brack
Jul 28, 20151 min read
Sam's Spade
Studs seized the shovel and leaped over the loose soil of the grave at the thug nearest him. Plastic met plastic with a satisfying thud....
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Jeb Brack
Jul 21, 20151 min read
Braced
From the shadows stepped two thugs. The faint light glinted off the knife and brass knuckles they brandished as they demanded the records...
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Jeb Brack
Jul 14, 20151 min read
A Grave Yard
According to the plans in the Legotown Archives, all the landowners had the same address. Studs Fedora and Cara Lotts paid them a...
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Jeb Brack
Jun 30, 20151 min read
The Plot Plan Thickens
In the Legotown Archives they spent hours searching through filing cabinets, checking property records against Studs' list of slums Lotts...
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Jeb Brack
Jun 23, 20151 min read
Tossed
Studs Fedora followed Cara Lotts to her husband's office, hoping to find a lead among his records. Instead they found chaos. Lotts'...
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Jeb Brack
Jun 9, 20151 min read
Persuasion in Crimson
Studs apologized. She forgave him. He offered a refund. She refused him. He quit the case. She forbade him. He went back out into the...
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Jeb Brack
Jun 2, 20151 min read
An Uninvited Guest
Studs pulled himself together as best he could and dragged himself to his office. The door stood open, and through it he could see a...
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Jeb Brack
May 26, 20151 min read
Paying the Porcelain Piper
He woke somewhere that looked and smelled worse than his apartment, with his face pressed against cool porcelain and a huge lump on the...
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Jeb Brack
May 19, 20151 min read
A Sorrow For Drowning
Leaving the station house, Studs Fedora knew he should contact his client. After all, her husband had died almost before his eyes. He...
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Jeb Brack
May 12, 20151 min read
The Third Degree
The cops had questions for Studs Fedora, and when they didn't like his answers, they asked the questions again. Studs didn't like his...
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Jeb Brack
Apr 28, 20151 min read
Lotts Is Done
Studs Fedora peered down into the squalid alley behind the hotel. Amid the trash and detritus lay Merton Lotts. Studs stared at him a...
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Jeb Brack
Apr 21, 20151 min read
A Bad Feeling
Bricks Bennet moved off at last, and Studs returned to his surveillance of the Hotel. A nagging feeling grew in his mind that he could...
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Jeb Brack
Apr 14, 20151 min read
A Friend in Low Places
Lotts had been in the Hotel almost an hour when Studs heard his name called. He turned to find himself face to face with Bricks Bennet,...
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Jeb Brack
Apr 7, 20151 min read
The Hot Sheets Hotel
At last Studs Fedora tailed Merton Lotts out of the slums, but not to anyplace respectable. Lotts entered a fleabag known only as...
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Jeb Brack
Mar 31, 20151 min read
The Tail
Next day Studs Fedora spent following Merton Lotts on his daily routine. The man worked in his office all day doing whatever businessmen...
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Jeb Brack
Mar 24, 20151 min read
Can't Buy Me...
While Mrs. Lotts collected herself, Studs Fedora gathered basic information about her husband Merton--where he worked, his licence...
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