![]() ![]() Her fingers were long and graceful, clean but for a tiny smidge of soot between them, conspicuous against her smooth copper skin. “Thirsty?” I asked the woman, holding out the glass. The man hopped around like a one-legged bird, glaring up at me. I snatched another drink from a server and shoved my way through the crowd, deliberately stepping on the foot of some good-looking egg trying to stammer out a hello. But this dame in the blue dress, you couldn’t ignore a looker like that, even if you knew she spelled trouble. Maroni and that blonde doll on his arm weren’t going to follow themselves. I was here to work: jealous husbands and wives, they kept me out of the flophouse, and Mr. I hated high society, the polite conversation, the looks people gave you if you bothered to earn your keep. I knocked back my drink and crossed the room. ![]() She was standing at the top of the staircase, with restless fingers and defiant eyes, wrapped in blue silk that clung to her hips. Taking on this new case might just be Jimmy Prince’s biggest mistake yet. Asking the wrong question is a guaranteed one-way ticket to the long and silent ever after. In Spindle City, all kinds of tales get told… for a price. With every new clue, Jimmy finds himself a step farther down a path that threatens to uncover some of the city’s best kept, and most deadly, secrets. With the help of his trusty assistant Jack (a street-savvy teen runaway who is as tough as she is resourceful), Jimmy finally catches a break when one of Spindle City’s most powerful players, the Godmother, lets slip that Ella is part of a much larger conspiracy and not at all who she seems. But no one is answering his inquiries about Ella, the mysterious dame who slipped into the Prince family gala, stayed for a dance, then disappeared at midnight leaving just a single bloody glass slipper behind. Jimmy Prince is a private detective with a tendency to make bad decisions, take on hopeless cases, and ask too many questions. ![]() The Case of the Little Bloody Slipper by Carlie St. ![]()
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