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The Littlest Client #135

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Now that should've made the early warning siren in my head go off but, like I said, I was young and just starting out as a detective.

Anyway, I followed the guy for a whole evening. Toward the end of the night he must've caught on to me because he ducked into an alley. When I followed he opened fire on me. I slid behind a metal trash can and returned fire.

He missed. I didn't.

When the smoke cleared I realized that my client decided that hiring me to kill her husband was cheaper and quicker than a divorce...

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