Dead Dead Dead, The Little Girl Said

A Harry Neal and Cat Misadventure

De: Bentley Dadmun

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Harry and Cat are steady customers at Gretchen's Kitchen, a shabby, pleasant restaurant where Cat can warm her scarred body by the woodstove and Harry can slump in a booth, drink Gretchen's four dollar a gallon wine, and contemplate the folly of his declining years. They're existential drifters, content to let life take the line of least resistance. So when Gretchen asks Harry to do her a favor and help her dying friend, Eva, he at first declines. But, he's cursed with an overactive curiosity and he visits Eva to see what there is to see. He learns that Eva's husband, Frank, was found dead of a heart attack ten years ago, but she's sure that's not what happened as Frank was a very healthy fellow. Enticed by Eva's $5000 reward offer, Harry and Cat team up with her granddaughter, Priscilla Matson, a diminutive bodybuilder with a nine pound mouth and an aversion to cats. They travel central New Hampshire seeking answers. Among others, they talk to an unstable woman who spends her nights compulsively cleaning and her days drinking Champagne, a dying man who wishes he'd commited suicide when he had the chance, a history professor who has hated Harry for twenty years, and an old couple living on the extreme margins of the American Dream. They learn that another man went missing around the same time as Frank's death and suspect a connection. Harry bribes a policewoman, robs a funeral home, and makes an error in judgment that has horrific consequences. They carry on, getting ever closer to the truth until finally, in a subterranean hell, they find it in a soul ripping encounter with horror and death.