J.A. JANCE
DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE
To Alice and Alan,
the happy campers
and
To Doc Thornton,
J.P. Beaumont’s personal physician
CONTENTS
The jangling telephone reverberated through my head, ramming its way…
I have worked with these two men for so long,…
There are a lot of things about this job that…
The deep-throated honk of a semi’s horn sounded three short…
I was shocked when Kimi Kurobashi opened the door and…
Locked out of her father’s inner office, Kimi was able…
When I got back home to Belltown Terrace it was…
The Pullman-Moscow Airport is set in a natural swale among…
A young Hispanic-looking doctor with a chart in his hand…
The crime-scene team, two criminalists from the Washington State Patrol…
I took a decrepit cab, possibly Moscow, Idaho’s only cab,…
Big Al and I sat in the warm autumn sun…
My hand still hurt like hell as I rode upstairs…
I may have been in bed, but I hardly slept.
“Tell me just this one thing,” Big Al said, as…
By the time I was ready to head across the…
By midnight I was back in line waiting for a…
When I got to the Medical Examiner’s office, three people…
Ralph Ames was up and gone when I got back…
The waiter was coming toward us carrying a tray laden…
I charged out of Waterfall Park just in time to…
It took a long time to get things sorted out…