Mercenary Affections

Mercenary Affections

Guild Press

Alexander Goodman

$1.95

Excerpt

If you’re expecting a lot of gore and suspense and terror, you might as well stop right now. It isn’t that kind of a story at all. I was involved in a murder; the police questioned me extensively about it and a detail of it was indeed gory. Nevertheless, this murder is only incidental to the story as a whole which is not at all terrifying but partly romantic, partly humorous.

It all started in the Wedgwood Room of the Hotel Devonshire in Boston during the last year of World War II. This bar was the bar—tres, tres gai, but also chic and friendly. It was one of the few pleasant bars in the city, the meeting place and often the first stop of the evening for me and my Navy friends as soon as we left the base.

During the week and especially on the weekends, it was filled to the rafters with sailors, soldiers and some officers, but mostly sailors.

It was here I met Pelleas Broun.

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