Jake Randolph: Origins Pt. 210

"So," I continued, "I drove up here to meet with him. He has a beautiful house on the beach overlooking Monterey Bay. Anyway, he had been receiving death threats recently and wanted me to look into it."

"I bet that's difficult. A former mobster would have no shortage of enemies looking to take a whack at him."

"True. But it's no mobster that's threatening him. It's Lieutenant Frank Rivers'."

"Dun-dun-dun!" she said, imitating the music in a suspenseful TV show when a new clue is revealed.

I smiled. "He didn't claim authorship of the letters at first, though."