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                                                                          THE NYLON KILLER

(Fiction. With the exception of any place names, all components are fictitious)

But, surely,

for everything you have to love,

you have to pay some price.

--- Agatha Christie ---

THE 10th GIRL IS MURDERED BY A SERIAL KILLER

On a sunny and beautiful Monday morning, detective AlfaZero was in his apartment-office reading the newspaper when his cell phone rang. It was a call from Chief Constable Calahan, the local police chief. He said, “Detective AlfaZero, we need your help. Have you heard the news? Another girl has just been murdered.”

“Yes, I know, I was reading the newspaper when you called. I read about it.”

“She was the tenth girl to be murdered in about three months,” Chief Constable Calahan said. “And we have absolutely no clue whatsoever about the murderer. This has never happened to me in my entire professional career. I am completely frustrated.”

“Well, Chief Constable Calahan, successes alternate with failures, so you’ll just have to cope with it,” detective AlfaZero replied.

“Yeah, I know what you mean. Anyway, you haven't answered to my request yet. Are you going to help us on this case?”

“Yes, sure,” AlfaZero said. “Just give me all the details on the case.”

“Well, unfortunately,” Chief Constable Calahan replied, “we don't know much more than what the media is saying. As you saw in the newspaper, this morning at about 4, the tenth girl was murdered in a span of time of about three months. Since we found a note on the girl’s body containing the same characters that were on all the notes found on all the other nine murdered girls’ bodies, we have associated all the ten murders to the same serial killer. The characters on all the ten notes are: INoN-60'sGH-EP.”

“All the girls,” Chief Constable Calahan went on, “with ages between 21 and 25, were strangled with a nylon thread (and that's why the murderer is known as ("The Nylon Killer"). The girls were murdered in different places. Some in apartments rented for the occasion by someone using a false name, some inside stolen cars that were then abandoned and still others, in public dancing places. Apart from the note that the murderer left on the body of the victims, we have absolutely no other clue whatsoever. Well, AlfaZero, I wish you the best of luck on your investigation”, Chief Constable Calahan said while sighing.

“Okay. I’ll do my best to

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Verlag: BookRix GmbH & Co. KG

Tag der Veröffentlichung: 10.11.2018
ISBN: 978-3-7438-8606-3

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I dedicate this book to all my readers, especially those who enjoy reading detective short stories.