The Investigators, Inc. The Missing Jewels Case. Chapter 10. Mr. Flynn.

Friskie was still with Bradley keeping an eye on him. She decided to remain visible, otherwise he might try calling for help. She didn’t want anything like that to happen until Mr. Flynn arrived and hopefully that would be soon. Meanwhile she looked over his collection of DVD’s, mostly from his own movies made downstairs. She didn’t like that kind of thing and wanted to destroy them all, but then she noticed one that said, “13 Jewels”. She decided to check that one out and put it on.

Sure enough it was our girls and basically this one was an advertising video, showing their new collection of “jewels” for intimate escorts. Friskie communicated this with Kat and she told Friskie to keep that one and check to see if there are any others with our girls, or more copies of this one. Friskie figured if there were more copies they would likely be hidden somewhere, possibly down on the second floor where they make these things.

However, she didn’t want to leave Bradley right now, so she just looked around the apartment. Suddenly one of the men called upstairs to Bradley. “Hey Mr. Kingston,” said the man, “Mr. Flynn has arrived!” That was strange, Friskie had been watching, but no vehicles had arrived. But, she had everything set up and ready, now it was time to deal with Bradley. She went over to him. “You are going to sleep for a while Mr. Kingston,” said Friskie, “you will remember nothing except what I tell you right now, and you will wake up when you hear your name.”

She then put him to sleep, he was already lying on the sofa. She took the handcuffs and gag off him, then turned invisible again. “Bradley, open this door now!” yelled a man. Bradley woke up suddenly, then went to the door and unlocked it. “Oh, Mr. Flynn,” he said, “I didn’t know you had arrived already.” “One of your men called to you,” he said, “you didn’t hear him?” “Oh, uh, I guess not,” he said, “I had been working on something to show you, then I was tired so I laid down on the sofa and must have fallen asleep.”

“What were you working on so intently?” asked Mr. Flynn. “Hugh has been stealing from Intimate Jewels,” said Bradley, “and putting the money into a private account of his. I thought he was acting rather strange lately, but he never lets me look at the financial end of things. However, I finally decided to do some checking and I have the proof right over here.” He then showed Mr. Flynn on his laptop how money had been taken out of the Intimate Jewels account, the same amount each month for the past 7 months and that same amount being deposited into a private account with his name at a bank in Brisbane.

“Campbell, look into this right now,” said Mr. Flynn, “and Rook, get Hugh over here immediately.” “Shall do Mr. Flynn,” he said and off he went. “I never figured you to be so proficient with computers,” said Mr. Flynn, “and what exactly led you to suspect Hugh of cheating us?” “Well, there’s this young lady,” said Bradley, “she comes and goes and she sells me information once in a while. She alerted me to what Hugh was doing and it fit with what I thought of Hugh acting strangely.

She told me about Hugh’s personal account, which was different than the personal account I knew he had. I have no idea how she found out about that account, she never tells me where she gets her information, she just keeps saying that too much knowledge is dangerous.” Just then another man came in and told Mr. Flynn he had gone over the security tapes and no woman had entered or exited the place in the last 24 hours. “What have you got to say about that Bradley?” asked Mr. Flynn.

“I don’t know how she does it,” replied Bradley, “but I leave my bedroom window open for her and that’s how she gets in and out of here, though I still don’t know how she gets up here. She just laughs and tells me she jumps. But her information is always good. She says her name is Tabitha Goodman.” “Check on that woman Campbell,” said Mr. Flynn. “Shall do Mr. Flynn,” he said, “this other information is accurate, Hugh has been stealing from you.” “He will regret that,” said Mr. Flynn. He then asked Bradley about the women they had kidnapped and then lost, plus this Steve Mackenzie and those Black Wolves.

“Campbell, look up the Mackenzie’s Girls and the Black Wolves, the latter being from Canada,” said Mr. Flynn. “Got it Mr. Flynn,” he replied. It didn’t take too long and Campbell had some early information. “Those Black Wolves control most of the drugs into Canada,” he said, “they number close to 500 members. The leader is Aari Jensen, his sister is married to that Steve Mackenzie. Mackenzie’s Girls are a smaller outfit of about 50 women, based in Scotland, though they travel around a lot. Their specialties are high end thefts and extortion. Want me to keep digging?”

“No, that’s good enough for now,” he said, “just check on that girl now.” While this was going on Friskie had communicated with Kat and Sky that Mr. Flynn had secretly arrived, so they were now moving in. “Hey Mr. Flynn,” called a man from downstairs, “all of our security cameras suddenly quit working!” “I just had them checked a week ago,” said Bradley, “everything was fine. Maybe someone is tampering with them. Turn the outside lights on Willard!” “They’re not working either,” he said.

“Then we have unwanted visitors,” said Bradley and he, with Mr. Flynn, went downstairs. Friskie followed but Bradley closed the door on her, and she can’t walk through doors like Jennifer. She became visible again and Campbell jumped up with his gun out, but he dropped it quickly yelling about how hot it was. Friskie then told him she was the woman he was looking for, but he won’t find her anywhere. She then kicked him 3 times and he was out cold.

She then turned invisible again and quickly slid under the door since Bradley had locked it. Unfortunately Mr. Flynn had escaped but the front door suddenly exploded off it’s hinges and ended in splinters all over the room. The blast killed two men as well and Kat with her Wildcats were the first to enter, followed by Sky and her Bad Girls. It didn’t take long to get things under their control, with 9 men dead, 4 wounded and the rest surrendered.

Bradley was one of the men who surrendered, he isn’t much of a fighter, he would rather stay alive. Sky and Kat then called the police to come and take over at the house and they arrested those men who had surrendered. The police also found Hugh’s body out by the gate, evidently he had just been tossed from a car, but he was already dead when they did so. Mr. Flynn, however, managed to get away…

To Be Continued. ©2026 Steve McLeod.