Tag: Rainer Manning
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All Guests Must Be Announced – Ch. 17
“Speak of the devil,” said Gerry, holding open the door. “How was your day, young lady?” “You boys gossiping about me?” Agnes said, jokingly. “You know I enjoy negative attention.” I said, no. Yes, Gerry said. “What happened here?” “Kranepool leapt to his death,” said Gerry. “Shut the fuck up. No way.” “No lie. Kranepool is hell…
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All Guests Must Be Announced – Ch. 16
The lobby phone rang as it did often throughout the day, no matter who you were on the phone with, a tenant walking through the lobby would see you on the phone and automatically assume it was a personal call. It was not uncommon for a complaint to be made to Murphy about staff using the phone too…
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All Guests Must Be Announced – Ch. 15
“Oh, no,” said Gerry, with a loud sigh as he opened the door to the building. “Is it true? Oh, God,” Lightbarn wept. Mr. Lightbarn was a tall, middle aged trust fund man-child. It must be nice to have no financial worries. He was one of two shareholders that no longer communicated with me. A goofy…
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All Guests Must Be Announced – Ch. 14
“Hold the elevator,” Gerry shouted as Carmen walked into the lobby. “Take your time. Slow down. Slow it down,” I said to her as she hurried toward the elevator, with a computer bag in one hand, and a bottle of sauvignon blanc in the other. “Thank you, love.” Carmen as she preferred to be called was…
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All Guests Must Be Announced – Ch. 13
The phone rang in the lobby as it often did. The traffic lulled, now that most of the tenants were home from work. The medical examiner had come and gone with what was left of Mr. Kranepool’s physical form. As they wheeled Kranepool out on the squeaky stretcher, the body zipped tightly in plastic with the sheet…
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All Guests Must Be Announced – Ch. 10
Gerry showed up only an hour before his shift started. He had some luggage and a case of Budweiser cans. Ichabod was excited to see me and I petted him and scratched his face. Murphy was talking to the detectives who had left for some time and returned. They had more questions about Kranepool which Murphy obliged. I…
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All Guests Must Be Announced – Ch. 9
Detectives were in the lobby while Kranepool’s mangled physical form waited to be removed by the medical examiner. The elevator rang, I walked across the beautiful marble tiles and checked to see what floor had buzzed. The number 17 was indicated. Keith Hernandez wore number seventeen. In ‘86 he had 171 hits, 13 home runs, 83 runs batted…
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All Guests Must Be Announced – Ch. 8
Every building on the island of Manhattan had rodents and insects and needed some level of pest control. No matter how expensive or luxurious the apartment vermin dwelled within their walls. Bugs navigated through the plumbing and ventilation. It was likely pigeons used their water tank as a toilet. Every job, whether it’s on a construction site or…
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All Guests Must Be Announced – Ch. 6
Murphy Mchale was born and raised in the Morris Park section of the Bronx to a blue collar Irish-Italian family. He was nurtured by the sunday meat sauce of his mother and disciplined by the belt of his no nonsense father. Murphy loved sports but took to two things early, weight lifting and boxing. Under the tutelage of…
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All Guests Must Be Announced – Ch. 5
The velvet blackout curtains were caspian blue, and drawn over the windows and the glass door that led you into the courtyard. Those curtains were almost never drawn, but today was an exception. Murphy and the responding EMS, a pair of paramedics, a man and a woman, thought it best to cover up the windows. Give the man…
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