Shred of Evidence

The call troubled Pete Thorsen. It wasn’t like Sam Lawrence to call him in the evening, much less when he was out to dinner with a client.

When Pete got back to Sears & Whitney, he found Sam hunched over a small conference table in one corner of his office, staring intently at a document. A jumble of paper covered the table with a couple of glasses, one tipped on its side, mixed in. Crumpled scraps of paper littered the floor nearby. That wasn’t like Sam either. Pete’s old friend and mentor was the most meticulous man he knew. Even in his prime, Sam’s office had always looked like the set for a magazine shoot rather than the workplace of one of the busiest and most successful lawyers in Chicago.

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I practiced law in Chicago for many years before giving it up recently to write fiction full-time. My short crime fiction has appeared or is scheduled to appear in publications that include Crime and Suspense, Spinetingler Magazine, FUTURES Mystery Anthology Magazine and Coffee Cramp eZine. I have other short stories in the mill and am working on my first mystery novel.