Murder Under the Boardwalk

[chrisy]

In her dream, faces swam before Valerie's eyes...some familiar, some not. "I'm so confused", she said, or rather tried to say, but the words would not come. I don't even know who I am! Am I Valerie, Danny's sister or sister in law? Or Vivian's sister or sister in law? Or, worse yet, am I all of the above, being married to my own brother?????

And what about Daddy? Is he secretly also Rockhead's father in which case I just arranged a surreptitious meeting with my half brother? or full brother? OR is Old Man rockhead sharing a room or maybe an IDENTITY with Daddy Vavoom???? Are one of us in, or soon to be in, the Witness protection program? Can we get a recap from central casting?

As she fell back into dreamless sleep, Valerie thought with relief: "at least it's not keeping me up at night like it is Chrisy!"

[PinkGirl]

Agnes Beasley drove slowly and carefully, as always, towards
the city. She was heading back to work after having delivered the
missing pomeranian to her owner, the socialite, Mrs. Ellingfish.
Agnes' head was still whirling from receiving twice the offered
reward. Mrs. Ellingfish, to show her gratitiude and relief, had given
Agnes $1000 for returning her beloved Princess Pom-Pom.

Agnes was trying to think of a polite and appropriate way to ask
her boss, Jim Rockhead, if she could possibly keep some of the money
as she had not been paid since December 24th.

While driving to the Ellingfish mansion, Agnes had decided it was
time for her to have a meeting with Mr. Rockhead to be briefed
on the happenings of the last few days. She was confused and
made a mental note to have her estrogen levels checked at her
next doctor's appointment.

Agnes arrived at the office and immediately sat down on the
confusion couch in the waiting room. She still had to dust the
cheap coffee table, end table and lamp and also get rid of the trashy magazines and clean the bathroom. She was tired.

Agnes thought of her days working with Mr. Rockhead at
the spray cheese factory and was questioning which of the two jobs
was more stressful. For the time being, she would stay with Rockhead.
She was a loyal employee and took her responsibilities seriously.

Right now she was determined to wait for Mr. Rockhead and have
him explain the details of their new case.

[Colleens_Husband]

Where are the police? They should have burst in by now grilling me about the where-abouts of Valerie Vavoom. Something just isn't adding up here. I just have one question for Valerie Vavoom and then I need to visit the morgue, there was something awfully suspicious about the photo in the local newspaper of Danny under that pier.

"Operator, get me Fairfax 9-1524. Hello, Super 7 Motel. Get connect me to room 203. Yes, the room with the J CUZZ and the magic fingers that works. Valerie, I don't have much time, when was the last time anyone saw Danny alive. Friday June 13th? Hmmm ..... That can't be! No time to explain, I need to get to the morgue before the swingshift goes home. No, I'm all out of quarters and it isn't safe to use the Magic Fingers 225 times in a row."

Jim Rockhead grabbed his coat and his fedora hat and rushed out of his office went down stairs and headed to the parking lot. Damn! The Pacer was gone. Since no crook is desperate enough to steal an AMC Pacer, even one in which the hubcaps keep spinning even when the car has stopped, then that me he lent it to someone. Thats right, he lent it to Valerie, and by looking on the horizon for the blue cloud of smoke his favorite car emits, he could see where Valerie parked it. No time to loose, Jim took off running towards the city morgue.

At the morgue, Jim found his old friend Bones Bonderman packing up and ready to call it a day. "Bones, I'm glad I caught you!"

"Hey Jim, I can't talk to you. Your persona non grata with the police department today. If I even say a word to you, Detective O'Hare will have me retrieving bodies from the bay for the next six years."

"Bones, I'm not asking for any information, I just wanted to come by and share some dinner with you." Jim took out a bottle of Mogen Davids 20-20.
"Bones, I warmed it up for you, I know how you like it served tepid."

Bones began salivating and reached for the bottle. Jim pulled it away. "Bones, this bottle is yours, all I need is two minutes with the Danny Vavoom body."

"But I could lose my job!" complained Bones.

"TWO minutes, Bones. Just 120 ticks of a clock. C'mon Bones. No one will ever know. Have I ever ratted you out?"

"Well I suppose not" whimpered Bones, "you got your two minutes"

"Thanks Bones, and if I find what I'm looking for, I've got a second bottle for you."

Jim Rockhead went into the morgue and found a body with 'Danny Vavoom' written on the toe tag. After a quick inspection, Jim said to himself, "This isn't Danny Vavoom. Now I'm totally confused. If this isn't Danny, then who is it? And where is Danny?"

Jim went out of the morgue and dropped a second bottle of MD 20-20 to Bones.

"Where are you going so fast?" asked Bones.

"I need to talk to Agnes."

Whenever Jim was stumped, he talked out the case with Agnes. Sometimes Agnes would offer insight that he overlooked and sometimes it just helped to say what he was thinking out loud.

[Becky]

Valerie Vavoom was up on her feet immediately. In two blinks, she was all over Geoffrey and snatched away the phone. She wished she still had those 4" spiked heels on because when she stomped on his foot, it only made him wince instead of scream outright.

She trumped over to a corner booth and yelled hello into the phone over and over but the call was lost and somehow, there was no recorded number.

Valerie felt tired and dirty. She knew she looked unkempt and that bothered her. She always had every hair in place and had her makeup done just right - even when she was downright sick with the flu. Even this scuzzy place couldn't take that away from her. She felt itchy and greasy. And who was that jerk. At first she thought he was leaping to her aid but he picks up the phone and answers it? My Gawdddd. And he's an idiot too. Her wallet was laying right there and it contained over $50,000 cash...