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More Nick DeLeon mystery but not the same hardboil

Saul Davidson narrates A RAW DEAL
Will Scranton narrates SPOKANE EXIT
Ben Hricko narrates AN ORPHAN AT TAHOE
Tony Vitalle narrates HI CHARLESTON COTTON
Sammy Levine narrates CHARLESTON BLUES
Sammy Levine narrates TAR BABY
Sammy Levine narrates GREEN GODDESS
Anita Bowers narratesCOP DOWN
Ibn-Ali Jerrah narrates AND IF I SEE HER AGAIN
Ibn-Ali Jerrah narrates STAR CROSS
Tony Vitalle narrates SAVANNAH LIMITED
Ben Hricko narratesMISS ME LUV?
Sammy Levine narrates THE GREAT RETURN
Sammy Levine narrates NORTH OF NOWHERE
Sammy Levine narrates CITTYKATS
Sargent Bowers narratesNEWBLOOD
Ben Hricko narratesBLUEFISH
Will Scranton narratesHARD RIGHT INTERVIEW
Will Scranton narratesYOUR KIDDING

POUR A TURKEY PAL, LIGHT THE STRAIGHT CAUSE THE STREET'S DARK AND THE AIR - IT BUSTS YER LUNGS. WHERE ARE WE?

Right here, Jackson, with Nickys Charleston pals. Coupla dames too, and some enemies though nobody spits that at 3-balls ... that's his street name ya know, 3-balls. Enemies?
Lots of Nickys enemies dont breath too good so stay casual, palsy. Sure, any Jackson gotta grift and Nicky ain't so modern, but who wants ta be cockroach spit? We all deal top card and get along. 
Stories? Some on the rough side Nicky knows some he guesses, but not you palsy. So peel eyeballs.

A RAW DEAL................ Sauls casino hots up for another big night - Sauls, where girls play bad with bad-boys. Outside insanity howls, but inside the dice and the flesh and the rake purr across felt - everything in place, except for the homicide detective stalking blackjack tables, and the swarthy hitman stalking him.

SPOKANE EXIT..............The night, a bar, a drink and a dame -whats not perfect, nothing except a dead body  floating the river, twisted pals on a cellphone and biker chicks with switchblades ...

AN ORPHAN AT TAHOE........No damned good it did me, running ... Prisy wept as the storm howled in - the dead whore was 3000 miles away, but she wouldnt stay there and wouldnt stay dead - not the parts that mattered and Nicky was flying into Reno to make sure.

HI CHARLESTON COTTON......Made in America - crooks only and the Feds not jeans no more - course a tough man used ta the crooks and the Feds might find the American jeans - if he fishes for them offshore.

CHARLESTON BLUES..........Take a sobbing SOB matron bent on revenge, a roving husband and an Island drug pervo ya figure what pays my rent - the bimbo, dead teen Jezebel and the snake - them I didnt figure on.

TAR BABY..................Hollywood, yeah more boobs than rubes - between homeboyz, deadly bimbos and snuff films I woulda had plenty ta watch out for. I wuz covering the lez sargents azz stalking Sunset Blvd for the snuffers.  Who figured a swim in the tarpits?

GREEN GODDESS.............I hate dead clients and green snakes - Whats more green about ecology than two olives sunk in a martini? How bouts a randy eco-babe and friends-a-gaia make the dinosaurs pray for asteroids.

COP DOWN..................The Lieutenants a bastard - a dark alley of a man - I saved his life, but I wouldnt hang onto him all night.

AND IF I SEE HER AGAIN....Its family matters you know that are deadly - those hateful memories between brother and sister. But the older the family, anticipating fame and power the more deadly the hate.

STAR CROSS................Jerry-the-Arab and Ben Hricko stalk cross a marsh, after Hrickos squeeze - she had pilfered computer files describing how Jerry and Ben would distroy eachother - some pals, huh, but together and alive a bush sniper is trying to do it first.

SAVANNAH LIMITED..........A night-train ta nowhere - real pals dont care. But who's yer pal? How long is the longest night? How does it start, why does it end?

MISS ME LUV?..............Any found woman -  you dont need to know her game to know its a game - her heat and her lies and the killing. But perfect as she was, I played and though taken, she might not need to kill me.

THE GREAT RETURN..........The frail wuz a slinky Left coast number and missing a sister. I needed clients like Buddhas frozen belly button: a dame too, I wasn't gonna return nothin'! Clients, Buddhas, numbers and the grift - Hricko wanted numbers, Feds the Buddha - I didn't know the grift any better than the client.

NORTH OF NOWHERE..........No man goes ta the dogs like a southron man goes, with the bitch who drags him. What he knows or a PI thinks doesnt count. I knew plenty - but the dogs were quicker.

CITTYKATS.................Only dames figure cats need obedience ... east-a-the-Nile or South of Broad. My SOB client figured the husband never learned and wanted pictures ta prove it. But babes in the RA, and Charleston Vice had more plans snapping at my heels than a room full a' Nile crocs.

NEWBLOOD..................She was only a baby. Neither the hurricane nor the Lieutenant could stop me from bleeding her killer. That's my social contract with men.

BLUEFISH..................Women distract a man at sea. Reynaldo was sailing in alone, his schooner loaded with grey-market computer chips. I waited, bobbing in the runabout while Peachy reminded me why men are alone at sea. But the snooping detective ... Nick always sails with a crowd.

HRI.......................Three wanted militia-men, an interview worth a million hits and two ezine editors carrying more heavy-metal scum than the Spokane River.

YOUR KIDDING .............By accident, I meet gorgeous dames at the apt. front door every day. Janey-girl had a live body I lusted for and two cold dead ones. Three is not my magic number. I knew that , but Janey-girl wouldn't listen.

Like Charleston, Nicks pals & enemies have their own stories, deceits, voices and lives. Dark whispered aspects ...
I'm tryn' ta listen. From horror ta romance, hardboil to fantasy tell ya what I hear. These are the characters:

Ben Hricko: Isle of Palms eco-perv, technophile, womanizer & pirate who knows the song ...
Tony Vitalle: SOB broker, rough customer, got pals break yer leg him too
Sargent Bowers: Nicks partner, and 'twin' in a parallel universe; not TOO parallel
Sammy 'the-mole' Levine: ballsy, low-life Charleston PI likes ta 'watch'
Saul Davidson: runs a Market Street boin and casino. Jerrys pal and partner
Ibn-Ali aka Jerry-the-Arab: arch-villian, Hrickos nemesis. A bad man to know the truth

Unlike Nick's narration, these stories display as single page pure text. No pics, mouse-over, sounds or scroll-box.
So Nicky sez pull up your lounge, pour a Turkey ... burn the Camel. Pick a voice. Nicky's heard it all - your turn now.

...OR jump-to Nick's own MULTIMEDIA narration