Jake Randolph in "The Littlest Client" Pt. 110
So, I put the money in the bank and started investing it. Before long my money was working for me. I didn't need to be a private detective anymore for money. But I did need it for the rush, like I told Harrigan. The adrenaline rush I craved. I shook those thoughts from my head and started for the Titan Tire Co.
It was just after 8 am when I arrived. The doors were open and guys were milling around inside stacking tires, cataloging tires, moving pallets of tires around with a forklift.
It tired me out just watching it...
- Category: Crime, Murder & Mystery
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Christopher over 3 years ago
Only posted three tonight. Worked on the story all evening but I still want to make sure I don't run out before I finish.
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Neville Hunt over 3 years ago
Some helpful background there Christopher. I often idly wondered how he could afford to live... particularly when his fees are just a single dollar!
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Christopher over 3 years ago
Well, that happened about five or six years after he got back from the war, so for the first few years after he got back he had to work and sometimes struggle. Then sometime in the early fifties, probably around '53 he quit being a detective until the Beatnik case got him back into it. It's confusing since I've bounced around his timeline with all these stories.
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Neville Hunt over 3 years ago
I like the bouncing around... but maybe I should read them all again, but this time in sequence. I’d need to know what that sequence is first though!
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Christopher over 3 years ago
Well, it took a few minutes but I got it sorted. The chronological order of the Jake stories are...
Bourbon On The Rocks (1949)
Tiki Moon (1949)
Jake Randolph, Private Detective (Murder Is But A Memory) (1950)
The Littlest Client (1951)
The Naked Beat (1959)
Origins (1962 with flashbacks to 1945)Thanks for the push because I had been needing to do that for my own information but just hadn't stopped to do it!
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Christopher over 3 years ago
Despite the bouncing around they've been pretty consistent except for one thing. In the first story I wrote, Murder Is But A Memory, I said Jake didn't usually carry his gun on his person because after the war he said he didn't want to do that, but I realized how tactically unsound that was so I changed it in subsequent stories. So I think that's really the only thing in these stories that would have to be retconned.
