The eye of the Bedlam bride part 2 ch 37 to the end

Ch 37 pg 419

Carl tries to act mad at Odette for ru8bing the ultra rich lady's plans.  But she knows it was a setup.  She tells him not to worry, she's got a plan and its all to make sure mordekai is set for life after this crawl.

Part 2: The Father

Ch 38 pg 432

The game is all messed up.  They though it would let them go to the Bahamas as thats where they had done all their research but then it only gave donut 4 choices and she chose Miami. But when she got there it said it was Iowa.  They breeze through half a dozen card fights by Carl just blowing people up with bombs.  Now we are into the difficult card fights.

Ch 39 pg 441

More card fighting stuff.  They combined uzi jesus and the pestilence guy from the god shrine challenge into 1 dude and hes got a bazooka.

Ch 40 pg 450

They have to climb up a cliff to get to the key spot, which is an area pulled from Iowa.

Ch 41 pg 461

They get to the top and it says its Dallas county Iowa.

They end up in a barn full of turkeys.  Mongo is going crazy eating turkeys.  Carl goes to retrieve him and theres a ghost turkey and it turns out that its a card game master and there's a giant ogre and they have to fight them both at the same time.

Ch 42 pg 473

Its a real bad fight, but they win.  At the end the ogre has a moment of lucidity and telks Carl they are starving. The game masters starve them when not in action.  But Carl can satiate their hunger.  We don't find out how because their crab kills the ogre. Also the turkey was named Tom a d for the whole fight the barn is sliding off the edge of a cliff.  And Carl can't use his bombs because the explode prematurely due to the Iowa strength heaters in the barn.

Ch 43 pg 490

NOS4A2 prologue - beginning of the "sleigh house 1996"

I hate this book cause it doesnt have chapter numbers.

Also, I'm reading the big print version so my page numbers won't match up with anyone reading the normal book.

Prologue 

A lady works at an asylum for the criminally insane.  A child rapist and murderer thats supposed to be a vegetable grabs her arm and threatens her son.  The doctor tells her to take off the rest of the day and tomorrow.  Its Christmas. 

Ch 1 pg 15 haverhill Massachusetts 

There's a girl who has a cool bike and rides it across a dangerous condemned bridge.

Her parents are arguing about where her mom lost her bracelet.

When she comes out the other side she's magically transported to a back alley near the seaside instead of the woods that should be on the other side of the bridge.

Ch 2 pg 30 Terry's primo.sub shop New Hampshire 

Looks like girl will be a going concern.  Her name is Victoria but likes to go by Vic and in her inner monologue calls herself the brat.

The sub shop is where her mom left her bracelet. 

Vic gets it and rides her bike back over the bridge back home.

Ch 3 pg 38 haverville Massachusetts 

The whole bridge situation took a lot out of Vic.  She makes it home and she has a fever and is too weak to stand and her dad catches her when she passes out.

Ch 4 pg 45 home

She's recovering from her ordeal.

Ch 5 pg 50 various locales

Vic decides to forget about the bridge.  Then there's some flashbacks tomother times she used the bridge to find something lost and decided to forget about it.

Pg 55 spicy menace

Ch 6 pg 57 Pennsylvania 

The red hot chili peppers are down with the state of Pennsylvania. 

Bing is a mentally ill man that works at NorChemPharm.  He sees an old ad for Christmas vill3 and writes them a letter saying he wants to work.there.

Christmas ville is where the serial rapist/killer of children in the prologue worked.

Ch 7 pg 73 NorChemPharm

Charles Manx from Christmasland shows upnwith his NOS4A2 rolls Joyce and picks up Bing to talk about his future, possibly at Christmasland or maybe as a murder victim. Only time will tell.

Ch 8 pg 81 highway 432

I think Charles max drugs bing as they drive to Christmas land.  He comes to and they're there.

Ch 9 pg 90 the road to Christmas land

Christmasland isn't a physical place in our world.  Charles Manx describes it as a dream world.  He can only take people there when they are asleep, which is why he drugged Bing. 

The children aren't dead, they're frozen.

Charles says he saves them from their horrible parents.

Bing says he wants to stay in Christmas land.  Charles says he has to earn his way in by helping him kidnap 10 children.

Ch 10 pg 103 the Pennsylvania country side 

They're here to case a girl that Charles wants to "save" from her "whore" mother who from my perspective is just overwhelmed  by doing her best to provide for her daughter by working at a bar.

Pg 109 the librarian 1991

Ch 11 pg 111 haverhill Massachusetts 

This time the thing Vic lost is a picture of her dad as a baby with his mom who died shortly after. The whole ride feels wrong this time.  Like she can't suspend her disbelief and just go with the magic of the thing.  Coming back she feels the bridge is gone for good now.

Ch 12 pg 121 the McQueen house

Vic was gonna go visit her friend before she left for lake winepesake. But she hears her mom talking about how the janitor that saw the bridge fell off the wagon.  So instead of visiting her friend she goes over the bridge again.

Ch 12 pg 128 here iowa

There's a girl on the other end of the bridge that tells Vic she's been waiting for her and knows she needs help wrapping her mind around the bridge. 

Ch 13 the librarian 

The girl's name is Margret.

End at 202

Next section starts at 205 haverhill

mass trip

Day 1: salem

Parked at O'Keefe sports complex

It was freezing.  Definitely bring a sweater if we come.her3 again.

Coffee at jaho

Sugar Free Raspberry latte was good.

Breakfast burrito was not

Wish I would have gotten a breakfast sandwich on a cinnamon raison bagel.

Wax museum.  Not bad.

Witch show.  Bad, that said, if the spell ends up improving my short game

Lunch at bit bar

Got the jerk chicken grinder.  Would go back just for that.

SALEM WITCH BOARD MUSEUM

Highlight of the day

Bought a rock for peace for $5

Dinner in Yarmouth at trader Joe's 

Jap chae and fake beef bulgogi. 

Perfect meal.

Day 2 Yarmouth

I love Yarmouth. Im Yarmouth for life.

Breakfast at Ann & Fran's Kitchen

I  got crazy sweet pumpkin spice French toast.

Wish I woulda had the special sweet potato hash.

Provincetown Art Association and Museum

Dinner at captain Parkers pub.

I got the fish sandwich and onion rings.  I wish I would have gotten the clamp chowder sour dough bowl.

Day 3 Martha's vineyard

Coffee at old kings coffee

Sugar-Free Vanilla late was ok.  Blueberry teabread was great.

Bobby B's on Martha's vineyard was bad

Bus tour of the island was good.

Chowder from 

Menemsha Fish Market Was skipable. Gingerbread houses are a must see. Id call this a bucket list thing if I knew they existed. Dinner at THE BARN was amazing But that might be cause im a basic bitch.  I got meatloaf with fig BBQ sauce and garlic mashed potatoes.  The ferry back was weird cause we stopped for 1 minute to pee and then were told the busses back to the parking lot has already left and we would have to wait 2 hours for the next ferry to come ine before the bus would go again. But we whined and the bus ended up taking us back to our car in 20 minutes.

Day 4 salem

The salem witch museum was fine.

It wasn't a museum. It was a show where you sit in the middle and it lights up scenes from the salem witch trials.

Breakfast at odd meter coffee was great.  They do their egg sandwiches over medium so a little  it of yoke comes out and its awesome.

Tea party museum 

Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum

So much more fun than I thought it would be.  Surprisingly emersive experience. 

Old Town Trolley Boston

I LOVE A hop on hop off bus.  Only downside was we kinda lost track of time and ended up on the second to last one so no hopping off for us.

Dinner at Jacqueline's on TWENTY-EIGHT was pretty good.  I got the pappardel and meatballs and it was good.  Shereen got the CHICKEN SORRENTINA.  We should have just ordered that and split it.

Day 5 salem

Breakfast at the ugly mug was worth the wait.  Just go.

Historical "walking" tour was ok, but we spent most of our time in a single house where a rich slave trader was murdered. 

Wish I had done more walking tours or maybe found a self guided one online.

All anyone talks about here is the witch trials, but much later it was the most successful port in America in the early 1800s and as a result there are Tons of giant fancy houses built back then and its kinda cool to just walk around and look at them. 

Being stuck in traffic for 4 hours was not fun and we almost missed out dinner train.

Cape Cod Dinner Train was great.  Even in mostly darkness.  Id definitely do it.again.

Day 6 Yarmouth 

Day 7 go home

Coffee at great awakening

Sugar free oat milk peppermint latte was ok.

M H D ch 8 to the end

Ch 8 pg 193

They do more training.

A french dragon shows up and it amkes Temeraire jealous.   Or maybe insecure is a better word.

There's word that some dragons have been taken and they need to take the place of the crew that's going to save them

Ch 9.pg 232

They are on the move and are attacked.  Lilly is injured quite severely.

They settle into Dover where everyone's wounds are tended to.  Its a little scary when Lilly isn't eating.  But she recovers enough to start eating and that's a good sign. 

One of Will's crew is a 10 year old girl.  She asks for leave.  Pretty much everyone that has asked for leave because they want to visit the ladies of the night in Dover and so Will says no.

Turns out she's another captain's daughter.  Another lady.  She spends the day with her mom and then at night Will and the lady talk about how since dragons live so much longer than people its best that the captains have children their dragons can have a relationship with so its easy to inherit the captainship of the dragon.  She suggests she'd be up for it but she's too busy.  She suggests maybe he and captain Harcore pop out a couple of kids. 

Ch 10 pg 257

Will takes some mail to the navy blockade.  He finds the general stuffiness and holding to propriety, stuff he used to treasure ad a Navy captain. now to be a real bore. 

Temeraire gets to do some fishing and he still loves it.  But maybe next time they should take off his rigging as he makes a real mess of it.

The airforce Admiral is real worried about the state of things and what Napoleon might have up his sleeve.  He intends on taking some aggressive action to get to the  bottom of things once Lilly has recovered.  

Will and Temeraire are to be training to lead a small triforce.  Seems like the Admiral intends to spread the local airforce a little thin so he can send out some serious firepower to France.

Will and lady captain do it.

Ch 11 pg 275

French captain has decided Napoleon is going to win the war and betrays them.  His plan is to abduct Harcourt and Lilly in the hopes bringing back an extra dragon will result in forgiveness. 

Turns out his real orders were to kill Temeraire. His egg was a gift to napoleon from the Chinese.

The reason the French captain was so certain was because the French fleet attacks the British blockade.  Unfortunately for them, the Brotish defense is solid and despite being outnumbered,  the French fleet is beaten and as such we are no longer expecting a French invasion. 

Ch 13 pg 301

Turns out the invasion is still on.  The French have troop carriers that the dragons can carry across the English channel.  

On page 330 Temeraire realizes he has super powers and uses his super breath to shoot down a transport.

The French end up retreating.

Epilogue pg 333

his majesty dragon ch 1 - 7

Ch 1

Laurence is a British naval captain.  

His ship has just overtaken a French ship.

He was very disappointed in the fight.  This French ship is running with a skeleton crew and it looks like they've been through the ringer.  Laurence is a little disgusted that the French ship didnt just surrender at first site.  He finds the reason they fought despite certain failure.  They have a dragon egg.  Its about to hatch.  Adding a dragon to the airforce would be a great victory for Britian.  The problem is someone has to try to bond with the dragon.  If you succeed, your life as you know it is over.  You become a dragon man, you have to live in remote areas far away from society. You will never get to wed or have children.  Your whole life becomes dragon.  They draw straws and a junior officer is given the duty.  But when the dragon hatches he's not up to the task and Laurence has to step in.  He's a dragon man now.

Ch 2 pg 31

Dragon is named Temeraire.  Im just.gunna keep calling.him dragon

  He's gettong.so big.sp fast

They almost screw things up by keeping him below decks too long and can't get him out.  But they do and he's an outside dragon now.  He's also a hero now cause he saved a man thay went overboard. But also hes a dragon so they don't really make a big deal about it.  He's so big that he can go flying with Laurence upon him.  And he can feed himself. 

Ch 3 pg 47

They make it to the island of Funchal.  Not sure who was claiming sovereignty over Funchal at that point, but now it's declared as part of Portugal.  It's way far south west of Morocco in the Atlantic ocean.   They meet with Admiral Croft, who sucks.  There's a dragon expert there that identifies Temeraire as a Chinese Imperial.  

Next stop is Gibraltar.  He gets there and everyone is mean to him cause he's a Navy clodpole.  The guy in charge is named Portland.  It's not important, but it was fun for me.

Ch 4 pg 81

Temeraire does some training and growing in Gibraltar cause he's not big enough to make the flight to England yet.  When it's time to go, Laurence is a bit disgusted at the seemingly haphazard way in which a dragon is loaded up to depart.  The other side of the coin is that it only takes them 15 minutes.  In the navy they'd still be getting ready to swab the deck cause they're waiting for the tide to rise before they head out.  Makes him thinking maybe he's judged the air corpse a little harshly for their frumpy dress.  They don't dress badly cause they don't care about their appearances, it's cause they have a need.  A NEED FOR SPEED!!!!

They fly to Chatham where they're told they're going to scotland.  Most everyone he talks to has some version of a speech akin to "The air force's business is the air force's business and you'll not breath a word of it to anyone ever."  But then they're all coy about it and won't tell him anything.

he stops in at his parents house on the way and everyone is mean to him

during book club I intend to see if we can make a list of the people that are not mean to him and see if it fills up a whole hand or not.

So I guess his mom isn't mean to him.  She's not angry, she's just disappointed.

Ch 5 pg 111

They fly to Scotland and after a bit of settling in Laurence realizes why everyone's so coy about air force training.  Most of the training is done by the Dragons.  If word of this got out it would be an absolute scandal.  Most people don't even know Dragons can talk, much less that they're intelligent beings with their own hopes and dreams and feelings.  I suppose maybe some of that is done by the airforce on purpose as they would like to have people think Dragons are simply beasts of burden.

Laurence goes to the sauna and is shocked to find that's where they keep the dragon eggs.

Lots of young boys in the airforce.  Laurence is good with young boys.  Unlike that Jean Luc Picard, always whining about how uncomfortable he is around children.

Temeraire makes a mess of himself eating and asks around to see where he can clean up.  He's told that dragons don't clean up.  They lick themselves like cats.  In trying to get Temeraire cleaned up, they run across a dragon named Levitas who has been neglected.  I have a feeling Laurence is going to find said captain and kick his ass.  Or at least give him some harsh words.

Ch 6 pg 137

They do lots of training. Laurence makes a friend.  Turns out its Levitas's captain and now he hates him and he hates himself.  Laurence 's first name is Will.  He hates himself.  But he has tons of money so he buys Temeraire a big fancy necklace and feels much better.

Also, there's a lady captain and this realization blows Will's fragile little mind.

ch 7 pg 171

Remember how I talked about training.  That was nothing.  The real training has begun and it is BRUTAL!!!!

They're sent on a rescue mission and shit gets a little wild.  But they make it back ok.

Things are bad down south.  Will and Temeraire are going to war and theyre joining a group led by a woman.  We will see how well Will handles himself.

black Dalia ch 25 to the end

Ch 25

Kay and bucky get bored with married life in less than 2 years.

Xh 26

Bucky is working as an evidence tech now.  He does the job just fine, but its not real police work so it drives him crazy.

Ch 27

He investigates a suicide at Madeleine's neighbors place to find out backstory on her from a new angle.

He ends up tailing her. Shes going out dressed like Betty and picking up soldiers. 

Ch 28

Bucky gets assigned to be a real cop on the night shift in a poor black neighborhood. He makes a lot of arrests by getting dirt on bad guys from the hobos and then starting fights with the bad guys and arresting them.  Hes a good fighter,  so it works pretty good.

Ch 29 

I dont remember chapters 29 through 31

Ch 32

This one's real long.

I dont remember the details.

The long story short is the georgey,  Madeleine's father's "gardner" killed Betty and when Bucky finds him there's a fight and he ends up blowing Georgey's brains out.

Ch 33 pg 300

Bucky goes to see madeline's sister.  She tells him that lee knew Georgie was the killer way back when before he went to Mexico. He blackmailed their dad into giving him money so he could pay people to kill Kay's former pimp. I guess he really didnt care about anything other than protecting Kay.

C H 34 pg 306

Turns out the real killer is Madeleine's mom.  I guess bucky is arresting Madeleine.  

Ch 35 pg 319

Madeleine goes to the insane asylum for Lee's murder.

Bucky gets fired.

Ch 36 pg 322

Kay writes him a letter.  He gets on a plane to go see her.

https://youtu.be/HIWY8UyW9bw?is=kLscxjKbD705UeZn

Ch 37 pg 325

Bucky prays to Betty for a safe landing. 

Afterward 

The author's mom was murdered and it feeds his black Dalia obsession. He seems to recommend that you see the movie based on this book.

the black dahlia 1 to 24

Preamble

Narrator is a cop, he does a good job vaguely describing how LA was kinda shitty in 1943 because it was naturally becoming the kind of melting pot the American dream describes and the establishment does everything it can to keep the minorities oppressed as best they can. 

Ch 1 pg 11

Narrator is looking to get promoted to warrants.  Its just this side of being a detective I gather.  Word is, the guy in charge of the decision is fond of boxers.  Narrator used to be a boxer.  So he gets back into fighting shape to garner favor. 

Ch 2 pg 17

Bucky is our narrator's name.  We already know he ends up partnered with this other guy that used to box as well, Lee.  So this chapter and probably the next will be anticlimactic. As a PR stunt, the LA police are doing cop fights.  The first one will be Bucky and Lee.  If Bucky wins,  he gets the promotion to warrants and becomes Lee's partner.

Ch 3 pg 23

We know Bucky wins the fight.

What this chapter presupposes is that hes gonna throw the fight to get money so he can put his father In an old folks home.

Also, hes getting a little but obsessed with Lee and his girlfriend Kay.  He asks Kay why they dont get married.  She says her and Lee don't sleep together.

Ch 4 pg 34

The fight is real fighty, Lee wins in the 8th round.  Boxing in book form is kinda neat.  I dont wanna see it, but having it described is fun to me.  I guess we'll see how bucky ends up partners with Lee even though he lost the fight.

Bucky takes his winnings and puts his dad in a home.  His dad is a nazi and bucky finds it amusing that most of the other old folks residence are Jewish.

Bucky gets 10 days off to heal from the fight.  Lee comes over to tell him hes got the job in warrants if he wants it.  The PR stunt worked and the bond measure passed so that other guy can fuck off.

Ch 5 pg 41

Bucky and Lee become fast friends. 

Bucky develops a bit of a relationship with Kay.  On new years eve she tells him she loves him.

Ch 6 pg 58

They're out looking for a guy and in looking for information they stumble across a group of four guys with Marijuana and knives and guns.  The four guys end up dead.  Lee is real shook up about it.  Also, Kay's former pimp gets out of jail next week and hes sworn vengence. 

Bucky gets to see Kay's naked body while she showers.

Ch 7 pg 67

We've finally made it to our titular murder victim.  Lee is 💯 on catching the guy that did it cause it reminds him so much of his sister's murder.  Bucky kinda feels like its not their job and they should do their job while the detective's work this case.  Also, maybe Lee is ignoring kay"s pimps imminent release with this case as a convenient distraction. 

Ch 8 pg 75

Bucky wants off the Black Dalia case.  His boss tells him to shut his stupid mouth and do his job. 

Ch 9 pg 90

Bucky goes around shaking any tree he can to find out more about the vic.  She was a liar that went from boarding house to boarding house and never made any friends or stuck around long enough for anyone to get.to know her.  The only mildly interesting thing he finds out is that she would go to the female guy bar.  We expect scamming for drinks.  Also, she might be 15?  Or maybe that was a girl she went to the gay bar with. 

Ch 10 pg 111

The cops nab a guy that gave the vic a ride from San Diego to LA.  The cops are leaning pretty hard on him.  Lee and Bucky don't think hes the guy.

Bucky questions one of the ladies that was seen at the gay bar with the vic. He's gonna take.her on a "date" tomorrow im exchange for keeping her out.pf his report.

Ch 11 pg 124

Only another 108 to go.

Bucky goes to Madeleine's house.  She made the mistake of telling her dad about the date and now he has to stay for dinner cause her dad is a fan.

Dinner is a disaster.  

Bucky and Madeleine go to a shitty hotel for her to hold up her end of the "date" in exchange for his covering up her part.  He catches feelings when he sees her naked.  Theyre gonna try to really have a relationship. But she's gotta tell him a secret.  She was more.involved with the vic than she let on.  They look alike and Madeleine heard about.this girl that looked.like her and partied even harder even though Madeleine was the hardest partier she knew.  

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Ch 12 pg 137

They find the 15 year old that was running mates with the vic, who's name is Elizabeth but was always going by a different nickname, Betty, Beth, etc. Probably changed with every new boarding house.  Im gonna call her Betty from here on out. 

Lorna is the girl's name.  Shes got a porno movie.  Its a lesbian porn with her and Betty.  Her thought is maybe now that Betty is famous she can sell it to make a bunch of money and hire a lawyer to get emancipated so she doesnt have to go back to her dad in Iowa that beats her.

All this time Bucky is just hoping his girlfriend doesnt get named in any of this Lesbian business.

The brass watch the movie and talk about different prosecution ideas.  Lee can't take it.  This is child pornogrophy and he won't stand for it.  He geabs the movie and jumps into his car and drives down to the lesbian bar area and starts yelling at them to tell him where they buy their porn.  

Bucky puts him in a full Nelson and eventually Lee stops fighting back.  The DA arrives on the scene and tells Lee that hes off the case.  He's gonna try to put in a good word with the chef and the mayor, but there will be a meeting and Lee better beg if he doesnt wanna lose his pension. 

Ch 13 pg 149

83 to go.  That's only 40 a day, no problem. 

Bucky shows up to work and the memo says meeting with the brass at 6 pm

Lee is nowhere to be found.  

Bucky goes to shack up with Madeleine. She tells him she had sec with Betty just to see what it was like to be with someone that looked so much like her.

Bucky leaves in a huff, gets on the police radio.  Finds out one of the warrants he wanted to stay on killed 2 people in an armed robery.  2 people dead because Bucky wasn't allowed to do his job because he was pulled into the 200 police circus that was Betty's investigation,  which so for had not borne any fruit.

Bucky blames Lee.  He finds him at the station and knocks him out.

Ch 14 pg 154

Bucky goes to the big meeting and Lee doesn't show.  He tries his best to plead Lee's case.

Both Lee and Kay's pimp are headed to Tijuana. 

Ch 15 pg 158

Bucky goes to Tijuana to find Lee.  He doesn't. But he finds some LAPD down there looking into the pornogrophy side of Betty's case and one of them, Fritzie, says he'll try to help.  Who they end up finding is Kay's pimp. They lose him and end up finding his dead body along with the dead body of a well known heroine dealer.

Ch 16 pg 164

Bucky goes to Kay looking for Lee.  He ends up at a hotel that I think Lee was working out of.  Real murder board for Betty.  Lee is really deep into this.  Cant pull himself out.  Maybe Bucky can.  He pays for the room for another couple weeks in case Lee comes back.

Ch 17 pg 166

A package claiming to be from the killer with Betty's possessions arrives. Everyone is all excited about it.   But there's no clear next step sp Everyone is just arguing. Bucky once again requests to betalen off the betty case and is rejected.

Ch 18 pg 170

Fitzie is a great partner.  Other people dont seem to think so, but from my perspective,  he's cool.

Things get weird with Madeleine. Hes thinking of kay and Betty while hes rutting her and he feels weird about it.  She catches on and it gets weirder, imho, cause she is ok with it.

Ch 19 pg 175

The killer sends his picture into the station. Everyone takes this as a sign that he's some sort of genius and they're never gonna solve the case.  Bucky is gonna get to go back to warrants. 

Ch 20 pg 177

Bucky isn't going back to warrants. Not all bad news, the reason is the captain thinks he might be a good replacement for a detective that's retir9ng in a few years.

There's an army guy out on the other side of the country claims he is the killer.  He was in LA at the time so Bucky and a detective fly out to interview the guy. Its not the guy. Everything he knew was from the papers.

Ch 21 pg 187

The asistant da has a group of 4 suspects they want bucky and Fritzie to take em to a warehouse and figure out which one really did it.

This is where the other people that dont like Fritzie really have a strong case.

He's torturing this guy's to the point where Bucky cant take it anymore and he pulls an alarm and runs for it.  Runs all the way to Kay.

Ch 22 pg 194

Life with Kay is good.  He breaks up with Madeleine and she says he'll be back cause I look like her.

Bucky is busted down to a beat cop again.

He's on skid row and the job is to beat up homeless drunks.  He doesnt so his performance reviews are very bad.

Even so, he checks in on the detective's working Betty's case every now and then.  They recognize Bucky is one of the good ones.  If he passes the seargant's exam and keeps working hard maybe theres a place for him in the detective beauro in a few years.

Thee department sends Kay a letter saying Lee has been officially kicked off the police force.  She gets a check for 14.11 as that's how much money was in his city credit union account.

Ch 23 pg 198

Bucky has a sudden hunch that this is somehow Fritzie 's doing.  Long story short, Fritzie kills himself and Bucky is gonna get an even shittier beat than the one he had before. 

Ch 24 pg

214

Bucky has two weeks leave before he starts his new assignment.   He decides he's going to go down to Mexico to find Lee. He finds out Lee killed Kay's pimp.  Also, Lee is dead.  He was throwing around soooo much money.  Where'd he get that money?

Bucky goes back to Kay, tells her Lee is dead.  She tells him Lee got the money robbing a bank and framed her pimp for it.  Remember those four guys Lee and Bucky killed?  One of them knew about the bank robbery and was trying to blackmail Lee. That's why Lee went looking for that trouble.   Kay tells Bucky to forget all about it and move on with his life.  Bucky says he will if she marries him.  They get married at city hall and have a party in a vacant lot.  He pulls his dad out of the old folks home to attend. Random people off the street join in and it turns into a hell of a party. 

Arrol Flynn!!!!!!!

End of chapter 24 pg 232