by Adam Maxwell
“Course not,” I said, reassured. “Just seemed obvious really.”
“Whatever it was you got a confession from someone who, until minutes ago would have gone free.”
He nodded and looked at me for a second without speaking.
“Well it appears we have an opening for a man of your talents at the Agency.”
I waited for him to stop, to backtrack on the offer but it appeared he was serious. I looked over to Mitch who just nodded ever so slightly.
“So, my little defective detective. What do you say?”
“Erm. Okay.”
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Credits
About The Author
Adam Maxwell was born in 1976 and spends a great deal of his time in the loft on his own cultivating a fear of crowds. He has a Masters Degree in Creative Writing from Northumbria University, and lives in the wilds of Northumberland. Sometimes he throws things at passers-by.
If you liked this eBook then firstly I would like to congratulate you for your impeccable taste and secondly I would suggest that you visit the website www.adammaxwell.com where you'll find that new stories appear on a monthly basis as well as a short story podcast and loads of other things you might be interested in.
Go on, check it out, folks.
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Dial M For Monkey (2006)
Adam Maxwell's first collection of short stories is inventive, funny, dark, and hugely entertaining. Effortlessly fusing pop culture, gunplay, and simians, Dial M For Monkey contains a vibrant mixture of short stories - and short-short stories including 'Happiness is a Warm Gun' which featured in McSweeney's Internet Tendency.
The Night Before The Christmas Before I Was Married & other festive tales (2009)
Charles Dickens has dominated the Christmas short story market for too long and he's so bloody depressing... wouldn't you rather read something that was funny, had comedy misunderstandings, people accidentally getting engaged and generally was a lot more entertaining and less depressing? Then you're in luck...
Let's be honest, Christmas can be a pain in the arse (or a pain in the 'ass' if you're from the other side of the pond) and this collection features some stories that I think we can all relate to...
Whether it's becoming accidentally engaged to your ex when your fiancee is coming home for Christmas...
Or perhaps you're spending Christmas with the in-laws, your wife is stupifyingly drunk and you destroy the presents...
No?
In that case you'll want to see what happens when two master hypnotists clash over an argument concerning a Christmas tree...
All these things and literally two others are dealt with in this collection of Adam Maxwell's Christmas stories.
He has asked me to tell you that he hopes these things don't happen to you this Christmas. And he also hopes they don't happen to him.
The Defective Detective : Cat Chaser (2010)
It's Clint's first case and everything should be going really well. And it probably would be if he'd managed to stay awake when he was briefed. With four suspects and clues flying will he be able to find out who's guilty? Or even what they're guilty of?
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The Defective Detective : Murder on the Links
Credits
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