Martini on Ice
A Mac Shamus Novel
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Martini on Ice
Chapter 1
Murdered. Shot right between the eyes. Perry Martini—successful long-time investor, land developer and entrepreneur—had been up to his ears in a maze of business corruption, bribery, deceit, and money laundering. Big deals, big cash payoffs and kickbacks to very influential secret investors were all part of his scheme to screw the government, land owners and big-time oil conglomerates out of millions.
Martini’s plot was staffed with former state and federal employees, along with key people having inside access and knowledge useful to Martini. Among them was April Salone, Martini’s private secretary, bookkeeper and lover. Little did Martini know that April had a scheme of her own. Offering and providing plenty of cash and sex for all—men and women alike—April’s plan was to eventually get the whole pie for herself after dumping those who were no longer useful to her. B.J. Alton, Carlotta Sims, Kay Conte—they all thought they were partners, but could they really trust a woman like April Salone?
Unbeknownst to any of the schemers involved, IRS intelligence had had Martini under surveillance for almost a year, and knew pretty much the whole plot. The federal grand jury released a secret indictment against Martini, and he was scheduled to testify under a subpoena. The IRS wanted Martini to drop the dime on all the players in the scheme, especially the secret investors, in exchange for immunity. Word was, however, that the highly influential investors knew the IRS was on Martini’s ass, so a professional hit to prevent him from testifying was inevitable!
The day before Perry Martini was due to testify, he was found dead, flat on his back in a pool of blood on a dirt road, only 20 feet from the state line. He had a single .380 caliber slug planted smack between his eyes. No gun was found, but suicide was suspected until witnesses said they saw a car with two occupants near the scene.
Within hours, B.J. Alton, one of Martini’s occasional business associates, was arrested and charged with aggravated murder. And the prosecution’s key witness was none other than April Salone! Shortly thereafter, a high-dollar mouthpiece arrived at the Shamus Detective Agency at
Ben Gibson, a local heavy weight criminal lawyer got a sizeable retainer from B.J. Alton with a contingent agreement for acquittal of another three hundred thousand. Giving Gibson some real incentive to get him off. Gibson had to get the real facts and quick!
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How would you interpret a dead man in your freezer, with a .38 caliber slug planted smack between the eyes to police? If it was murder, who did it? If it was suicide, then he would have to be a magician. How about a professional hit?
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CON MAN - Perry Martini. Word on the street, he was iced because of the IRS threats to convict him on multiple counts of bribery, kick backs payoffs, and money laundering surrounding the shady underworlds of construction corruption.
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Perry Martini, a successful land developer, investor and entrepreneur. In exchange for imunity, who was due to testify before a federal grand jury, that would cause a major upheaval with the high up political silent partners of Martini's lucrative land oil lease scheme. Which had raked in millions, undeclared and tax free, just days of his sudden and very abrupt death.
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Enter Mac Shamus, PI, who is hired by Ben Gibson, a law partner of Mac's ex-homicide buddy, Lt. Jack Dumphy, at the Cincinnati police. Now, also a high priced defense attorney in the same firm. To help clear their client B.J. Alton, charged with aggravated murder.