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Decoder Ring Theatre

Black Jack Justice (book) – 30

Decoder Ring Theatre

Gregg Taylor

Stories For Kids, Fiction, Kids & Family

4.8661 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2017

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Decoder Ring Theatre’s beloved his-and-hers private detectives return in a hard-boiled audio adventure in 30 chapters. The case that started it all - very first meeting between Jack Justice and Trixie Dixon, girl detective! Read by Christopher Mott and Andrea Lyons.

Can’t stand to wait a week for the next chapter? This story is available in both paperback and e-book editions. Find out more here: http://decoderringtheatre.com/books/black-jack-justice/

This week - In which an understanding is reached and a story begins. Narration by Andrea Lyons.

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0:00.0

Chapter 30.

0:01.0

Chapter 30.

0:04.0

I had been packing up my office for about an hour when he pushed open the door.

0:08.0

He had a paper bag in his hand and was wearing a suit that was actually more wrinkled than the

0:12.3

one he'd had on the day before.

0:14.0

Wow, Jack said, this place looks like hell.

0:17.0

Thanks so much, I snapped.

0:18.0

You really know how to brighten the join up.

0:20.0

I mean it, he said. It didn't look this bad when I left it.

0:23.2

I mean, you got rid of the two dead guys, which is probably a good move, but other than that.

0:27.5

It was the cops, idiot, I replied.

0:30.1

Rosetti's boys tossed a place looking for my camera,

0:32.7

and Sabian's boys tossed it again trying to figure out what they had been looking for.

0:37.3

They could have just

0:38.0

asked us. We wouldn't have told them, I said. We're funny like that. He thought about this for a

0:44.1

minute. I'm not at all sure that we didn't tell them, he said. We've spent so much time downtown

0:49.1

lately I can't keep it straight. Yeah, I agreed, still working. Jack was looking around as though he'd lost something.

0:56.4

Can I help you? I asked, Testa Lee. Where's the coffee pot, he said. Oh, for Pete's sake, I said,

1:01.7

throwing the pile of papers in my arms into a box. I don't keep a coffee pot in the office, Jack.

1:07.5

He seemed baffled by this. How do you live? he asked at last, and I'm not sure that he was

1:12.3

joking. You have a problem, you know that? He nodded. Not just one, he said. They are a legion.

1:18.9

Do you want a scotch? I asked, with a pretty good idea of what the answer would be. It's 10 o'clock in the

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