Pay-Back Time

Opening the black, newly painted and furnished door of a ground floor apartment, embellished with 100B in brass letters, Isabel was immediately aware of an unpleasant, almost overpowering smell coming from the main living room.

The tall, slim body of a man lay sprawled in a chair, his legs splayed out before him accentuating his height; his head back, his throat an open, congealed, bloody wound, in and around which maggots crawled.

Another grizzly crime case for Homicide Detective Maurice Shiff and his side-kick, Chuck Johnson, to try to solve