Dark Carnival Murders
hello.
    "Buck said that he and Mac
are to lure four women into a party tomorrow night at the Luxor
where they will be kidnapped for transport to who knows where.
He’ll try and give me a few more details when he gets them. I have
an idea if you can work it out?"
    "Talk to me, I’m always
interested in your ideas. It usually saves me from thinking," she
said with a laugh.
    "Can you have Deacon see
if they have some undercover female officers in vice that could
pose as Buck’s guests to this party? Maybe wire them and have your
men waiting to follow where ever they take them."
    "I got it, yes that could
work. I’ll tell Deacon and have him arrange it. Tell Buck the plan
and I’ll arrange for the women to give Buck a signal as to who they
are."
    "Get it set up and get
back to me. I’ll pass it on to Buck."
    Lynn said she would and we
hung up. I called Buck back and told him my idea, he liked it.
"I’ll call you again with whatever Lynn can come up with," I
said.
    We finished the call and I
put my head back on the couch.
    "Hey, you can’t rest,
there are children out there missing and you have to find them,"
Penny said.
    "Babe, if Buck and Mac
haven’t found them yet, I don’t think I could tonight. We have a
lead now and hopefully it will pan out to finding where they are
taking the boys. But it won’t happen until tomorrow, so we need to
get some rest now."
    "All right, but don’t get
too lazy on this. Now I’m going to bed, you can join me, but for
sleep only." She stood and went off to the bedroom, leaving me
thinking about the activities of the last couple days. I hated it
when my mind wandered and I wanted to sleep. It wasn’t a good
combination.
    I stood and let my body
fall into place since I had been on the couch for the last five
hours. I followed my wife to the bedroom and found her in bed
already, asleep. She was fast on her feet and fast in
bed.
    I undressed quietly and
slid under the new satin sheets we bought. They felt cool and
slippery on my weary body, I relaxed. I lay there thinking back to
when Buck, Earl and I had gone on a mission to track down the
trafficking of strippers from Detroit to New York. Rex Erotica had
an office in the north of Detroit and the women they grabbed where
chained and held captive until the runners could transport them to
the whorehouses of New York where they were forced to prostitute
themselves. The office where they were held captive was disgusting
and the women were treated badly. We rescued Angelo’s cousin’s
girlfriend from the human trafficking machine and shut them down.
Unfortunately, I took a bullet on that adventure and almost died,
but Penny and the Traviano mob family stood by me as I recovered.
Say what you will about mob families, they are concerned about
their friends.
    It didn’t take long for me
to pass out, I was asleep before the sun came up. When it did, my
cell phone buzzed and it was Lynn.
    "Just couldn’t wait to
wake me," I said as I looked to the digital clock on my bed stand,
it read six-thirty.
    "And miss a chance to get
you up? I wanted to call an hour ago, but Deacon stopped me. I got
some info for you to pass on to Buck," she said.
    I came a little more awake
on that note. I rolled over and saw Penny heading to her bathroom
and turned my head to see Willy staring at me from where Penny was
last sleeping. The dog licked my nose quickly, I pulled back and
asked, "Did Deacon find a couple undercover officers to go to
Dark’s party?"
    "Oh, yes he did. After it
came out why we needed the undercover, we had more than enough
volunteers to go to the carnival and get set up. I can send out six
female officers to the party if that’s enough?"
    "Buck told me they only
needed four, so go with that. We can make it a total cop party;
that should scare up a few bad guys."
    "Yes, but we don’t want
Dark to know his plan went south, we need to play it cautiously to
get the whole picture as to where they are taking the
women."
    "Agreed, and I hope it

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