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Jailbirds's Daughter
Sydney, a six-year-old charmer, wants to hire detectives to find her mother. Her father, Henderson, is an inmate in O triple C. (Oahu Community Correctional Center). He’s scheduled to testify against the Mafia in Las Vegas, has been framed, and his life is in danger in the prison. Syd’s mother has been kidnapped by prison guards who mistakenly believe that Henderson has stolen three hundred thousand dollars. Dick and George rescue the mother, but Dick is shot in the shoulder. They need ten thousand dollars to hire the notorious lawyer who will certainly spring the father. They stage a phony kidnapping to raise the money, move Maggie their receptionist to Seattle to impersonate a branch office. They get the father out of jail, and move the entourage to Seattle. Now they must get Henderson to Las Vegas in time to testify, but because Wickersham, the world’s number one detective agency, has been hired to find Henderson, they dare not use a credit card. When Henderson’s driver’s license number is broadcast in Bakersfield, California, George, and Maggie take off with the cars, hoping to lead the detective agency astray, leaving Dick and Henderson with very little time and very little money to get to Vegas any way they can. In the final dash, they drive a stolen cop car up the steps of the courthouse just minutes late. DedicationThis book is dedicated to cousins. Starting with Bailey Ayers whose picture graces the cover, and her sister Sydney who donated the name of the star. Cousin Michael Hartwig designed this, and several other book covers. Cousin Charlotte Allen donated her name to Sydney’s mother. Cousin Beverly Larsen remains the president and so far only member of my fan club, and so it goes. I’ve never had two shekels to rub together, but am a very rich man in the way that counts, a large, loving, supportive family. Cousins have proliferated unto the fourth generation so I’m afraid to start naming them because I’d surely miss a few. It’s a frustrating fact of the publishing world that this book was written and the cover designed when Bailey was seven years old. Because this is the third book in the series and each previous book has taken years to publish, the girls are not cute children anymore, they’re gorgeous young women, so this is an exercise in remembering when. I would love to acknowledge two characters who are not cousins, but they will never know. Cy, the Chinese bar tender at 8 Fat Fat 8, vetted the books and approved, but did not live to see them published. The character we call Sugar is very real. Her given name is Austin and you can find her with her shopping cart in the Fort Street Mall in Honolulu. Her misadventures with her missing cat and with the vital organs the nurses have stolen are verbatim. I could never invent a character as colorful as Sugar. Perhaps one day Lydia, the receptionist at KITV, will tell Austin that she’s in a book and Austin will be pleased, but I’m afraid she’s past the point of reading.
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Published in January 2010 by Design by P E Porter |
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