Lakeshore Advance, 2012-05-16, Page 3520 Lakeshore Advance • Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Granny's ring box
Rick Huntley
Special to the Lakeshore Advance
Local author, Rick Hundey, will be publishing a third work
of fiction this summer. His first two were mystery novels
revolving around Grand Bend private investigator, lack Beer.
His latest, The Garnished Truth is a collection of short stories,
many of which feature characters from those earlier lack Beer
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Rev. Eugene "Red" O'Reilly will be in our area
bringing his preaching, story -telling and music that
have brought many people's faith alive.
The mission starts at Immaculate Heart of Mary
Church in Grand Bend on May 29th until June
1st. It begins at 7:30 pm each of the four evenings.
Come out and bring a friend.
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books, Death at the Bend and Colling-
wood Fakeout.
The Lakeshore Advance is serializing
one of the stories from The Garnished
Truth for your summer reading
enjoyment.
For those who wish to buy an early
copy of "Ihe Garnished Truth' (or Hun-
dey's other two books) watch for the
book launch at .., or contact the author
online at u►u'u►.rickhuradery.f(euxpop,
ti' or by email at rickhundey@faux-
pop.ty. (Ilundey has pledged all royal-
ties from the sale of the first one hun-
dred books of his latest book will be
donated to a local charity.
By way of introduction to the first
instalment of 'Granny's Ring Box,' the
story took shape after Hundey's friend
David Scott, a local playwright, sug-
gested there had to be an intriguing
mystery behind a Kijiji ad he came
across. After you read the 'Granny's
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Ring Box,' we think you will agree he
was right.
Granny's Ring Box
The voice on the phone threw me
back in time but I wasn't sure how far
because I had no idea who it was. 1
guess it was Just the fact I picked up a
familiar twang. Or the expectation in
her voice. But, maybe my ears were
playing tricks on me.
"Is that Jack Beer?" she said.
"Yeah. Who is this?"
Ignoring nay question, she ploughed
ahead, "I've been looking for Betty."
"You have?" I said, hoping for a clue
as to the topic.
"Yeah and it's been years. 1)o you
remember her, lack?"
"Betty?" I thought about it and
could recall no one by that name.
"Come on, you have to remember
her."
"You got a full name for Betty? Or
maybe one for yourself?"
"This might jog your memory. She
said you used to call her 'the town's
most beautiful drunk.' Ringing any
bells?"
From the first time 1 ran away from
foster care, l always had an affinity for
drunks. I could talk to them and they
empathized even if they weren't
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computing what they were hearing.
And at the same time, 1 have always
felt an appreciation for beautiful
women. Put the two traits together
and how could I not remember 11,.
Washburn? Because, for sure, she was
a fine looking woman, for a drunk.
I met Liz on my second night as
Police Chief of the Town of Grand
Bend. Or maybe it was early on nay
third morning. She'd been tossed out
of all of the Town's watering holes for
being too feisty. By the time I met up
with her, she was directing traffic at
the corner of Main and Provincial
Ilighway 21, using a bottle of Rickards
Red as a baton. She threw the empty
at me as I approached and I fielded it
cleanly. In the time it took to cajole
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