Chapter 4 Jenkins & Higgins, part 2

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Chapter 4
Higgins & Jenkins

 

Tony John Higgins had originally sought promotion, but instead he had received what many would consider to be unfair treatment.
                      His MD was a horrible, slippery, little weasel of a man called Waspmen. And it wasn’t through lack of experience, or education that Higgins’s name was excluded from the short list of interviewee’s for the technical job; for he had more than what was required for the position. It was simply down to Waspmen’s discretion. In addition to this Higgins had sadly lost his pregnant wife, some six-months earlier, in a car crash & everyone including the MD knew it.
                      After Tony had asked for a meeting to clear the air & it was granted, a date & a time was set. However, from the outset, it was plainly obvious to him that it was going to be more of a pre-planned belittlement than a career discussion. After all it was what this gutless little man enjoyed most; for it was Waspman’s greatest pleasure to the point of orgasm, to wield his power over helpless employees, but not all. Only the ones whom he disliked, for no particular reason other than they were either too strong or too weak, were allotted such treatment. These included people (women in this number) that, because of his callousness, were reduced to tears, who would under normal bar-room circumstances crush him like a fly. The style of leadership he employed was therefore an abuse of his position, due to his own egotistic insecurities. (More of a Waspmen-pleasure than a company benefit.) Anyway, after the first talk had remained unresolved, ( or should I say, after Waspmen had had his fun) a second meeting was arranged exactly two weeks later & Higgins had made his mind up that enough was enough.
                 Soon into the second meeting it was noticeable that he never flinched, or squirmed in his seat as the verbal onslaught commenced; well... not as Waspmen had hoped for anyway. To Waspmen’s annoyance Higgins remained calm & collected, perhaps a little too calm the tormentor thought for a blink & then it was gone. Higgins even looked to be smirking at him as he blazed; even after Waspmen had made it clear that his career was at a dead-end & that no reference would be issued to aid him in his search for other work. Never-the-less Waspmen continued on, claiming that the CV Higgins presented before him, on request, was a concocted set of lies, when the names & contact details of valid referees were present & clear on the bottom of the last page. Obviously Waspmen was looking for a conflict, any excuse to perhaps even fire him, Higgins concluded. In truth it was just the MD’s sick & demented pleasure. It was therefore apparent that Tony Higgins was trapped with no way forward & no reasonable way out of the company, for the chances of saving his once-promising career without a reference from his currently employer was limited to say the very least.  Higgins was indeed smirking, but not only in expression for inside he knew that a surprise of a life time awaited this wanker-of-a-man; for he understood that Waspmen had inflicted the same treatment on many a poor employee in years gone by & now it was payback time.
               
Trivial as it may seem, it was well known that Waspmen was an avid Lou Reed fan. He had mentioned it once when he was being interviewed for the company magazine & they published it afterwards. However Higgins, on numerous occasions since had been forced to wonder what the fuck Lou Reed would make of such a fucking idiot, if he was ever unlucky enough to meet him, let alone learn of his existence.

    So Higgins, who was sat directly opposite Waspmen, just as the meeting seemed to be drawing to its predictable yet unacceptable close, -inappropriately (or so it seemed) began to whistle.     

 “Are you listening to me man?” bellowed Waspmen from across his desk.
“Are you completely crazy? Wait, ... isn’t that... yes, you’re whistling “A walk on the wild side” aren’t you?” He questioned, as a puzzled expression was soon replaced by a broad yellow-toothed, sick smile.

Higgins had decided that the tune would be appropriate, having played out the scenario, over & over in his head during the last few days which had lead up to the final meeting.  Pre-planned he was primed for his moment of truth.

Before Waspmen had time to utter another word, let alone see it coming (after he had been initially distracted), Higgins in one fell swoop pulled the sawn off shot gun out from under his donkey jacket & blasted it at point blank range, decorating the wall paper & book cases behind with pieces of the MD’s brains & fragments of his skull. Taken to the brink & passed, without his family & with his career in tatters, there really was no other option left, he reasoned as he calmly stood & walked towards the door.

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SEA DOGS Chapter 4 Higgins & Jenkins, part 1

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Chapter 4, Part 1

Higgins & Jenkins

Tonight was a bad night! Without warning, & after years of experiencing nothing, Billy’s nightmares had returned with vengeance. Higgins tried to comfort his friend in the damp, darkened cell to no avail.

Theirs was an almost father-son relationship, although Higgins (the ward) was younger in age. Many times before this, whilst they were alone in their cell at night, the normally withdrawn Billy Jenkins would open up, tearfully telling his story of injustice (be it genuine or not) & then Jenkins would wonder; how could this could be the one they call the Berkshire Ripper; the creature who had ripped all those poor women to shreds; - the one who he had read of in the news papers & had seen on TV? It didn’t make sense to him & after a time he too was certain of Jenkins' innocence.


                     Tony Peter Higgins had met a number of bad characters before, along the way. The type that would stop at nothing to earn a crust, be it blood money! Like Leroy Locke for example, who used to drink down at his local (the Stocks pub in Redwich). Originally from Leicester, Locke was from a crowd of gangsters that would shoot anyone at a price! Famously he took a trip one time down the motorway for a £500 fee in order to shoot dead the troublesome lover of an acquaintance’s ex-wife, on his door step. Although he attempted to make it look like a robbery in the process he unfortunately failed to convince the police. For although he was not one to lack the stomach, when it came to such mindless acts, he did however lack intelligence & was arrested soon after, once the gun, with his finger prints all over it, was discovered in the victim’s dustbin!

                       Even though Higgins had mixed it a bit when he was younger, he was morally a decent man & he felt for his cell mate’s plight. Logically, it appeared that a grave injustice had in fact occurred. And he wasn’t the only one who thought this way either. Some of the warders, who had had direct contact with Jenkins on a daily basis, for the past years that he had been imprisoned, also shielded grave doubts. It was a fact. Jenkins just didn’t fit the profile of a killer.

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Small SERIAL KILLER QUIZ (Answers)

Here are the answers to the small SERIAL KILLER QUIZ that was posted on Tuesday January 19th 2010.

Here is it is again.

Below are a number of real & fake Serial Killers. At least one of them is pictured twice.

Which ones are fake?

Who is pictured twice?

And which one is ranked the worst of all time?

1. The ones that are obviously fake are the Hollywood & TV  Characters thrown in for fun.

Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anothy Hopkins) SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
A Lecter quote, 

"On a similar note I must confess to you, I'm giving very serious thought... to eating your wife." - Nice!

And then there was DEXTER, the SERIAL KILLER who kills only the bad Guys!

2. Which Serial Killer was picture twice?
Well it was none other than Mr. Ted Bundy, who supposedly received hundreds of letters of proposal a day from Women who facied him! That's a definite one night stand if ever there was one!

3. Finally  -   who was supposedly the worst of them all?
Well it was the Guy from Peru, known as THE MONSTER OF THE ANDES 
PEDRO ALONSO LOPEZ who WAS so terrible I cannot describe how bad. He was tried for Murdering 350 young girls & Women in Ecudor, Peru & Columbia.

 



THE END (I'm relieved that it's over & I'm not really sure if I can bring myself to do another QUIZ like that one!! Luckily all of these monsters are either awaiting Execution, are imprisoned for life, or are Dead!!) 

Also I must admit that writing the Serial Killer's part in my book SEA DOGS was not a nice experience, but you'll have to wait & see if he gets away with it, gets hunted down, or Kills the lead. Wait for the twists & turns, because it's a roller coaster ride - believe me. Next installment, the first part of Chapter 4 is coming up now! 

Animated Detective Story

Now I feel you have to give credit, where credit is due & I therefore have to include this.

Is it a a true out & out Detective story, or not? -Make up your own mind. I like Matrix (the first film), so I guess it's ok to post the link, so here goes. I came across this & I personally like it a lot!.

SEA DOGS up-date +NEWS

The next installment of SEA DOGS (Chapter 4, Part 1) exclusive available on THE LIFE & TIMES OF DCI STARK - http://www.thelifetimesofdcistark.blogspot.com/ will be posted soon!

Also  the answers to the small Serial Killer Quiz (that was posted 2 days ago) will appear too.


Now even though I didn't want to dwell on the subject of Serial Killers too much, it has become apparent that my SERIAL KILLER QUIZ was a popular post! Never mind. It means that unfortunately there could be others in the future that follow this up. However I promise to counter this with THE BEST DETECTIVE EVER -QUIZ quite soon. Also I will contine with THE TOP 15 THRILLERS OF ALL TIME - posts. I'm also considering a Detective comic book serial that could also run here. We'll have to see if it's possible. Otherwise, if anyone fancies contributing a Detective\thriller sketched comic serial for this blog, then I'm open to offers!!

A SHORT STORY
One last thing - I have also been given permission to post a close friend's short story, which I must do soon, because in all honesty she can really write!! In truth this story is not exactly a thriller or a real Detective story, but it covers the subject 'in search of..', which is kind of  close to me.

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The Famous Short, Almost-Easy, Film & TV thriller quiz (answers)

Here are the answers to the quiz from the post dated the 15th January 2010,.

1. Name the film = The Maltese Falcon
    Name Humphrey Bogart's Character in the film =
    Private Detective Sam Spade
    What's in his left hand side, inside jacket pocket =
    A photo of his Mother.
 

2. The made for TV classic criminal (mini) Series
= Prime Suspect

   The main character =
   DCI Jane Tennison  
   (played by Helen Mirren)
 Name her Dentist = Dr. Brown

  

  3.Film = China Town
     Character shown \ main character
=  Private Detective Jake Gittes                            

    (played by Jack Nichohson )

    

 4. Film = SE7EN
    The three Characters =
    Detective David Mills 
    (Brad Pitt); 

    Detective Lt. William Somerset
    (Morgan Freeman);

                                              & John Doe (Kevin Spacey).
     What just happened ?
=  Brad has just got the bad news about Gwyneth 

 


5. Film = North by North West.
    Characters pictured =
    Roger O. Thornhill  (Carey Grant);

    Eve Kendel ( Eva Marie Saint ).

    Name the Camera man = Sir Alfred Hitcock.

6 The 'it girl' was of course Bogart's wife Lauren Becall
   Her character name in The Big Easy =
   Vivian Rutledge.
 

7. Film = Silence of the Lambs
    Character shown = Agent Clarice Starling
    Her real name = Jodie Foster - of course.

8. Film = In the Heat of the night.
    Characters Pictured above =
    Detective Virgil Tibbs (Sydney Poitier)

& Chief Gillespie ( Rod Steiger ).

   What's in the box?
= Baked bread!!