Larkin still stood at the counter. “I meant to call you yesterday,” he said as Noah walked toward him. “I got caught up.”

“I saw the news.” Noah thrust the white envelope out. “This was in our—my—mailbox when I got home from work. I opened it… but it’s meant for you.”

Larkin uncrossed his arms and hesitantly took the offering. It was greeting-card size. No name, no mailing address, no stamps marking it as having traveled through the USPS. “What is it.”

“Just look at it,” Noah said.

Larkin held the envelope by one corner and carefully wriggled free the folded cardstock from within. He opened it to reveal cut-out magazine letters, pasted together to form new words:

SHAME ON YOU, LARKIN

The s had clearly been cut from an advertisement for the New York City subway—its font highly recognizable.

TO IGNORE MY MEMENTO

The death portrait of the unknown girl? Or the message scrawled on the back?

“WHAT THEY ARE, SO SHALL WE BE”

In the crease of the letter was a ticket stub, like those for Broadway theatres in the 1980s.

COME FIND ME

Up next…

Everett Larkin and Ira Doyle return in:

Broadway Butchery

(Memento Mori: Book Three)

About C.S. Poe

C.S. Poe is an author of gay mystery, romance, and speculative fiction. She is a Lambda Literary and two-time EPIC award finalist, and FAPA, Indie, and two-time e-Lit award winner.

She resides in New York City, but has also called Key West and Ibaraki, Japan, home. She loves Romanticism artwork, Gilded Age New York, the films of Buster Keaton, coffee in the morning and whiskey in the evening, true crime, and cats. She’s rescued two cats—Milo and Kasper do their best to distract her from work on a daily basis.

C.S. is an alumna of the School of Visual Arts.

Her debut novel, The Mystery of Nevermore, was published 2016.

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Also by C.S. Poe

SERIES:

Snow & Winter

The Mystery of Nevermore

The Mystery of the Curiosities

The Mystery of the Moving Image

The Mystery of the Bones

The Mystery of the Spirits

Snow & Winter Collection

Interlude

Magic & Steam

The Engineer

The Gangster

The Doctor

A Lancaster Story

Kneading You

Joy

Color of You

The Silver Screen

Lights. Camera. Murder.

Memento Mori

Madison Square Murders

Subway Slayings

An Auden & O’Callaghan Mystery

(co-written with Gregory Ashe)

A Friend in the Dark

A Friend in the Fire

NOVELS:

Southernmost Murder

NOVELLAS:

11:59

SHORT STORIES:

Love in 24 Frames

That Turtle Story

New Game, Start

Love Has No Expiration

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