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Yoo-hoo, Therese. You still there?
Lord knows, I’ve tried.
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Was Goldschmidt being blackmailed?
If it weren’t for the lives damaged and lost, or the murder of Michael Francke looming in the background, this would be what they used to call a French…
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Neil Goldschmidt in the Land of the Dead
Just two weeks ago, as Neil Goldschmidt’s ghost began drifting toward its next station in the Land of the Dead, there was a revealing, and actually…
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WHEELER DEALER: Chapter 15
Well, you didn’t really think they’d get away, did you?
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WHEELER DEALER: Chapter 14
A month after they capture him in Washington after that shoot-em-up on I-5, Kessler is walking the yard in Rocky Butte with Roger, who of course was…
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WHEELER DEALER: Chapter 13
Everything considered, the view from the Rocky Butte jail, which used to sit on the eastern edge of Portland overlooking the vast forests and…
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WHEELER DEALER: Chapter 12
Of course the DEA isn’t about to let this one go with just a 3-ounce buy.
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WHEELER DEALER: Chapter 11
The heat’s on.
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WHEELER DEALER: Chapter 10
The Wheeler Dealer office was on the second floor of an odd triangular building at Southeast 72nd and Sandy, above Fairley’s Pharmacy.
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