Scooter Chronicles

This afternoon I finished the third book of Loren D. Estleman’s “Amos Walker” mystery series. It was titled “The Midnight Man”.

This time around Amos Walker P.I. gets involved in a double homicide of two Detroit Police Officers, while a third is paralyzed. How it happens is rather ironic, and turns out that his investigation is free of charge. Why? Because the day before the third cop took a bullet to his spine, officer Van Sturtevant (”Van’s my first name, not part of the last.”) was shot at by Walker himself. It was part of a mix-up in what was becoming a local hi-jack ring that Walker was investigating....

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Last night, Marcia and I were invited along to go with David and Catherine to a place called Monk’s Café in downtown Philly. The attraction to this place was good food and a beer menu of mostly Belgian beers. Though the place looked different, the food and beer selection reminded me of Belgo’s in London, England.

The place is very small, and very busy. I would say the both the front and back bar area’s are only 15 feet wide. When we got there, they told us it would be a 45 minute wait for a table. We were willing to wait, but were having a hard time finding anywhere to stand or sit. After finding a piece of wall to lean...

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