This short story is an entry in the 2001 Soc.Sexuality.Spanking Summer Short Story Contest and is copyright by the author and commercial use is prohibited without permission. Personal/private copies are permitted only if complete including the copyright notice. The author would appreciate your comments
Category: Adult
The Market Murders
By
Valerie Meilong <VMeilong1@excite.com>
The Chief Inspector sighed. Why did they have to let the local woodentops fuff about for so long? Four murders now, and six months before they'd called in Scotland Yard. Gawd! Now he had to pick up from where they tramped their hob-nailed boots all over the patch.
"Seen the photos?" he said to his sergeant.
"Yes, Sir."
"Same MO. Always the bloody same. Always around Shepherd's Market."
"That's where you'd expect toms selling spanking to trawl," said the young detective.
"Any ideas?"
"Well, there's this shop in Brewer Street. Specialises in spanking mags. Maybe chummy calls there from time to time?"
"Right. Set up a camera there."
"They won't like it."
"Tough titties. If they resist, lean on them. They'll co-operate. Get me a shot of everyone who buys. Skip the cheapskate browsers. Oh, and another thing, get someone to computer search through the speciality newsgroups. Start with SSS."
"SomeONE, sir. There's millions in that mob."
"Then he'd better get cracking, hadn't he?" said the Chief Inspector laconically. "Tell him to look for a pattern, any pattern. And if he can't think of a pattern get the computer to detect one. Whoever is murdering these toms has a spanking fetish. Has to cane them first before strangling them. I have a hunch that the answer is hidden in those SSS files, or some such newsgroup. Scour it."
A month went by. The camera in the porn-shop produced possibilities. Lawyers, businessmen, accountants, by the score, all furtive spanking-mag purchasers. "Visit every damn one. Tell them we're investigating murder. Note their reaction. Ask them where they were on the four nights of the murders. Tell them a car was spotted, but only three letters of the car were noted. Mention any three letters of their cars, and say that's why they've been selected. Don't make any reference to caning or spanking in any way. Okay?
It took three months, but led nowhere.
He took the photographs home. Gawd, there were hundreds! Two cans of Boddingtons later he had zeroed in on the close-ups. Two more cans later, he formed an idea. A call to Forensic next day produced results.
"Sergeant," he yelled. "Has that plod on the computer come up with any pattern yet?"
"There's millions on the SSS list, Sir."
"Tell him to look for Fifty."
"Fifty?" "Yes, any file that has fifty somethings in it." The sergeant raised his eyebrows, but obeyed the order.
Six weeks later they made an arrest.
Congratulations Chief Inspector," said the Commissioner. "How did you do it?"
He tried to look modest. "I noticed, Sir, that Chummy had given those toms exactly fifty whacks on their bottoms before he raped them and strangled them. I had the SSS files searched for any kind of fifty. We found two hundred and twenty-seven storywriters who used the word smack, or thwack, fifty times in a block. Of those, eighty were Brits. The rest was just plain routine police work. Hard routine elimination, but we got him."
The End
© Copyright Summer, 2001
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Reviews
LAR <lds627(at)home(dot)com>
Very clever indeed
Mija <mijita(at)newsguy(dot)com>
Nice use of the detective genre along with good use of SSS on a meta level. A greater sense of the terror the murders were causing, or something more to do with the camera in the shop would have added interest.