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The Littlest Client #147

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We got to the antique shop in Redondo Beach that Gallagher used as a front for his illicit operations and I left Max in the car and went inside.

A burly but dapper man in a pinstripe suit and pencil thin mustache approached me as he waded through the junk that doubled as antiques.

"Welcome to Newgrange Antiques."

Only Gallagher would name his shop after a historic burial ground in Ireland.

The man had a slight Irish accent but had obviously been in America a long time. He sounded like an American doing a moderately successful imitation of an Irishman...

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    Neville Hunt over 3 years ago

    Ah! To be sure!

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    Christopher over 3 years ago

    This was hard, because when they're Italian gangsters you can type it in a way that when you read it it actually sounds Italian in your head. It's a bit more difficult when it's Irish. I used a couple of phrases I knew that didn't make them sound like leprechauns, but you really have to use your imagination with this one.

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