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    The Sweatergeist
    The Sweatergeist
    The Sweatergeist
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    The Sweatergeist

    By Joseph D'Agnese

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    (Note: The Sweatergeist is a short story that also appears in the larger collection Daggyland #1, by the same author.)

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    Meet Archie Bleecker, the fingerless detective. The poor bastard entered this world without any digits.

    He earns his keep by solving New York’s most irrelevant cases.

    When a rich man hires him to investigate the case of a sweater that won’t stay put, Bleecker’s got more than mystery on his hands.

    Part ghost story, part private eye yarn, D’Agnese’s latest tale investigates the mystery of true love.

    This short story first appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine.

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    “D’Agnese writes the most unusual and interesting books.”—Bookviews

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJoseph D'Agnese
    Release dateSep 22, 2014
    ISBN9781941410110
    The Sweatergeist
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    Joseph D'Agnese

    Joseph D’Agnese is a journalist and author who has written for children and adults alike. He’s been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Wired, Discover, and other national publications. In a career spanning more than twenty years, his work has been honored with awards in three vastly different areas—science journalism, children’s literature, and mystery fiction. His science articles have twice appeared in the anthology Best American Science Writing. His children’s book, Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci, was an honoree for the Mathical Book Prize—the first-ever prize for math-themed children’s books. One of his crime stories won the 2015 Derringer Award for short mystery fiction. Another of his stories was selected by mega-bestselling author James Patterson for inclusion in the prestigious annual anthology, Best American Mystery Stories 2015. D’Agnese’s crime fiction has appeared in Shotgun Honey, Plots with Guns, Beat to a Pulp, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Mystery Weekly, and Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. D’Agnese lives in North Carolina with his wife, the New York Times bestselling author Denise Kiernan (The Girls of Atomic City).

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      The Sweatergeist - Joseph D'Agnese

      The Sweatergeist

      The Sweatergeist

      A Short Story

      Joseph D’Agnese

      Nutgraf Productions LLC

      THE SWEATERGEIST

      Published by Joseph D’Agnese at Smashwords

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright © 2013 Joseph D’Agnese

      NutGraf Productions LLC

      First digital edition: September 2014

      Cover design by GoOnWrite.com

      The Sweatergeist first appeared in the December 2013 issue of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine.

      This e-book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. All rights reserved. No part of this e-book may be reproduced in whole or in part, scanned, photocopied, recorded, distributed in any printed or electronic form, or reproduced in any manner whatsoever, or by any information storage and retrieval system now known or hereafter invented, without express written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      The Sweatergeist by Joseph D’Agnese

      Meet Archie Bleecker, the fingerless detective.

      The poor bastard entered this world without any digits.

      He earns his keep by solving New York’s most irrelevant cases.

      When a rich man hires him to investigate the case of a sweater that won’t stay put, Bleecker’s got more than mystery on his hands.

      Part ghost story, part private eye yarn, The Sweatergeist investigates the mystery of true love.

      This short story first appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine.

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      The Sweatergeist

      The first time Bleecker met Leopold Box, the man was sipping a mint julep under a whirling porch fan. The late afternoon sun canted through the gingerbread and lit the rest of the house behind him, which was painted canary yellow and cream white. It was a gorgeous example of a nineteenth-century Victorian and would have looked at home in downtown Natchez or Eufala or even Stowe. But the house wasn’t in any of those places.

      Would you like a drink, Mr. Bleecker? Box said.

      Bleecker climbed the steps to the grey deck of the porch, leaving East Ninety-Eighth Street behind.

      Water would be fine, he said.

      I’m in a position to do you one better, sir, Box continued. Fresh squeezed lemonade? He waited, overly delighted with himself, for Bleecker’s surprised reaction. (Bleecker conjured one up so as not to disappoint him.) And you have a choice. We can do this here on the porch or we can go up to my office.

      They went with the office, by way of the kitchen, the dining room, the sitting

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