Los Angeles Homicide 1009: The Fall and Rise of Frank Lafferty
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LAPD Homicide Detective 1009 Frank ‘The Bear’ Baumer works the Los Angeles Homicide Unit Detail
He is a second generation Homicide Detective, his father Frank Baumer Senior worked the Homicide detail from the late 1940’s into the1960’s (he appears in the ‘Olivia Pages Case’ Novel by this author).
Frank Baumer likes food and is seldom without comestible assistance, even at the most grisly of crime scenes, a man has to eat, and a Cop has to grab food where he can, due to the nature of the business – crime stops for no man or meal.
In this case 'The Fall and Rise of Frank Lafferty', Frank Baumer is called to a strange incident where a body was found dumped and then vanishes. Certain characteristics of the victim, identify him as a possible felon in an open case that Detective 1200 Dave ‘Dredge’ Dreyja of the Santa Monica Open Case Unit has on his books. (Dredge, is the Detective from the famous LAPD Detective 1200 short stories written by the same author.)
Dredge joins Frank Baumer at the scene of the disappearance, and when Baumer casually remarks the body has ‘Disappeared like Lafferty.’ Dredge inquires what he means by the remark and Baumer mentions details about the Lafferty case.
The premise of the Lafferty case was that a witness, Carla Emery, was asked by Susan Lafferty, wife of one Frank Lafferty to observe a meet up on a bridge that her husband was going to. Carla was asked by Susan to observe and report, Susan was suspicious that Frank Lafferty might be having an affair. The meet up and what happened was far from simple. As you will read.
An incident occurs at the bridge meet up involving a mystery man, in the aftershock, Susan Lafferty quits her job, moves house and effectively vanishes from circulation. Carla Emery starts receiving crank calls and starts moving around from rent to rent to evade the caller.
Meantime, Dredge draws a copy of the Lafferty file from the LAPD archives and starts pulling the case apart. They don’t call him Dredge for nothing. He digs deep, real deep. What starts to look like a dead end investigation, suddenly grows legs and starts walking.
Once Dredge and Frank Baumer start to pull the case apart, ghosts start to come out of the closet and Bugs crawl from under the stones.
However, Susan’s obstructive Lawyer Dick Bellend tries to put the block on the case being reopened. What is there to hide? What did really happen on the bridge? Is Frank Lafferty alive? Read on to see if Frank and Susan Lafferty are able to evade two of the Los Angeles Police’s finest Detectives.
A number of the themes and aspects of the Los Angeles Homicide and the Detective 1200 stories written by the author, come from the author’s own experience of seven and a half years Police service and over twenty years of Private Investigation work.
Having seen the Police environment from the inside of the Station House to doing the job on the streets of a busy urban conurbation, the author concludes “Working inside the Police environment, was probably the most enlightening time of my life in many ways, invaluable for me to absorb, learn and stow away scenarios and experiences that I can now do justice to in my writing works.†The author is also a prolific songwriter, musician, photographer and artist outside of his literary interests.
He is a second generation Homicide Detective, his father Frank Baumer Senior worked the Homicide detail from the late 1940’s into the1960’s (he appears in the ‘Olivia Pages Case’ Novel by this author).
Frank Baumer likes food and is seldom without comestible assistance, even at the most grisly of crime scenes, a man has to eat, and a Cop has to grab food where he can, due to the nature of the business – crime stops for no man or meal.
In this case 'The Fall and Rise of Frank Lafferty', Frank Baumer is called to a strange incident where a body was found dumped and then vanishes. Certain characteristics of the victim, identify him as a possible felon in an open case that Detective 1200 Dave ‘Dredge’ Dreyja of the Santa Monica Open Case Unit has on his books. (Dredge, is the Detective from the famous LAPD Detective 1200 short stories written by the same author.)
Dredge joins Frank Baumer at the scene of the disappearance, and when Baumer casually remarks the body has ‘Disappeared like Lafferty.’ Dredge inquires what he means by the remark and Baumer mentions details about the Lafferty case.
The premise of the Lafferty case was that a witness, Carla Emery, was asked by Susan Lafferty, wife of one Frank Lafferty to observe a meet up on a bridge that her husband was going to. Carla was asked by Susan to observe and report, Susan was suspicious that Frank Lafferty might be having an affair. The meet up and what happened was far from simple. As you will read.
An incident occurs at the bridge meet up involving a mystery man, in the aftershock, Susan Lafferty quits her job, moves house and effectively vanishes from circulation. Carla Emery starts receiving crank calls and starts moving around from rent to rent to evade the caller.
Meantime, Dredge draws a copy of the Lafferty file from the LAPD archives and starts pulling the case apart. They don’t call him Dredge for nothing. He digs deep, real deep. What starts to look like a dead end investigation, suddenly grows legs and starts walking.
Once Dredge and Frank Baumer start to pull the case apart, ghosts start to come out of the closet and Bugs crawl from under the stones.
However, Susan’s obstructive Lawyer Dick Bellend tries to put the block on the case being reopened. What is there to hide? What did really happen on the bridge? Is Frank Lafferty alive? Read on to see if Frank and Susan Lafferty are able to evade two of the Los Angeles Police’s finest Detectives.
A number of the themes and aspects of the Los Angeles Homicide and the Detective 1200 stories written by the author, come from the author’s own experience of seven and a half years Police service and over twenty years of Private Investigation work.
Having seen the Police environment from the inside of the Station House to doing the job on the streets of a busy urban conurbation, the author concludes “Working inside the Police environment, was probably the most enlightening time of my life in many ways, invaluable for me to absorb, learn and stow away scenarios and experiences that I can now do justice to in my writing works.†The author is also a prolific songwriter, musician, photographer and artist outside of his literary interests.
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