Fat Man Blues: a Hard-Boiled And Humorous Mystery (The Tubby Dubonnet Series book 9)
“It was a corner building on St. Claude Avenue, and termites had left it a little bit slanted. The influx of young people into the neighborhood had, however, transformed the tavern from a quiet backwater dive to a gold mine.
A country band was warming up when Raisin and Tubby came through the door at about 8 o’clock, and Janie herself was tending bar. The newcomers crowded into a space around a single stool where they unavoidably brushed butts with a young athlete wearing a cut-off UNO sweat...shirt and metallic blue Costa shades. He turned his strong chin to frown over his shoulder and assert himself, but a quick take on Raisin’s weathered brown face and Tubby’s substantial brawn sent him back to his own business.
They got the barmaid’s attention.
“Why, if it ain’t the two handsome preverts,” Janie yelled at the top of her lungs. “Who let you boys out tonight?”
“We just wanted to see you,”MoreLess
A country band was warming up when Raisin and Tubby came through the door at about 8 o’clock, and Janie herself was tending bar. The newcomers crowded into a space around a single stool where they unavoidably brushed butts with a young athlete wearing a cut-off UNO sweat...shirt and metallic blue Costa shades. He turned his strong chin to frown over his shoulder and assert himself, but a quick take on Raisin’s weathered brown face and Tubby’s substantial brawn sent him back to his own business.
They got the barmaid’s attention.
“Why, if it ain’t the two handsome preverts,” Janie yelled at the top of her lungs. “Who let you boys out tonight?”
“We just wanted to see you,”MoreLess
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