DEATH BY PARKING – Episode V: The Shakedown MaryWilliams looked at me, looked at the body, and shook
her head. She had stopped crying; my guess is that it was from shock. She just stood there, shaking. The officers beside her had changed; they were female cops, and knew their job. LAPD Lieutenant Bill Vose was standing over the body. He
was shaking his head. I started shakingmy head. “What?” saidVose. “Well, the man at your feet is JoeWilliams. The woman your
staff has surrounded is his wife,Mary. She works for a firm in the building; there is some issue with the parking operation.” “How do you know all that?” “Oh, they’ve beenmy clients since 10 a.m.” “I knew you had to be up to your neck in this,Manning. Noth- ing happens in Hollywood that doesn’t have the PaulManning Seal
Shirley’s Boss, A P
BY JVH
PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR PAULMANNING SHOWS UPATA PARK- ing garage where his client of 20 minutes lies dead and his client’s wife – who suspected a parking scam– is standing over a gun nearby.
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it.Are you sure that’s all you know?” Mary was beginning to become unhinged. She slumped
against one of the policewomen. They half-walked, half-car- ried her to an office nearby,where I could see a desk, chair and
couch.They let her lie down on the couch. Someone brought a cold compress for her forehead. Lt.Vosewalked over and picked up the gun.Hewaswear-
ing gloves. It was a police special. Smith &Wesson.A lot of stopping power. He sniffed the barrel. “It hasn’t been fired.” I couldn’t believe it. Usually at this point my client is
under arrest and I am calling my attorney and putting my car up for bail. “OK, Paul, here’s what we know,” Vose said. “We got a
call from the building office; I think it was your girl Shirley. She said that an ‘incident’was going on in the garage.When the black-and-whites arrived, they found your client dead and your other client there holding the gun. They told her to drop it, she did, and there you have it. “It looks like she didn’t shoot him, at least not with that
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gun,”Vose said. I saw Shirley come out of the stairwell next to the garage
andwalk over to us. Shewas blonde, shapely, and knewhowto command a room. Even happily married Vose turned and
“This is parking, for goodness sake. It’s not enough to kill for”
looked. In addition to coming in a perfect package, Shirleywas smart. She walked right up toVose, looked atme, winked, and started talking. “Hi, Lieutenant, you probably want to know why I called
you all together. I got a call from one of the tenants. He had just pulled into the garage and said there was an argument going on, lots of yelling. And he thought one of the people yelling had a gun. “I toldmy boss, Larry, and he said to call the police and to
call Paul. He wants Paul to represent the owners of the build- ing in this incident.We had hoped itwas just amisunderstand- ing, but it looks like it got a bit out of control.” Shirley glanced over at the body and then crossed her
arms over her chest.Her body language said thatwas her story and she was sticking to it.
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