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    Number Three: Highway Robbery
    Number Three: Highway Robbery
    Number Three: Highway Robbery
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    Number Three: Highway Robbery

    By Colin Cotterill

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    "First, my only appointment of the week phoned to postpone. Second, on the TV news in the evening I was astounded to see scenes from our own Highway 41 where an armoured security van had been deserted minus its cash. And, third, I was awoken just before midnight by the sound of groaning coming from the empty shop house beside mine. It was a while before I learned how these three events were connected."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherProglen
    Release dateDec 16, 2017
    ISBN9786167817989
    Number Three: Highway Robbery
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    Colin Cotterill

    Colin Cotterill (born 2 October 1952) is a London-born teacher, crime writer and cartoonist. Cotterill has dual English and Australian citizenship; however, he currently lives in Southeast Asia, where he writes the award-winning Dr. Siri mystery series set in the People's Democratic Republic of Laos.

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      Number Three - Colin Cotterill

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      Number Three

      Highway Robbery

      A Jimm Juree Short Story

      By Colin Cotterill

      Number Three: Highway Robbery

      Copyright © Colin Cotterill, 2017

      First published DCO Books 2017

      eBook Edition published by

      DCO Books, 2017

      Proglen Trading Co., Ltd.

      Bangkok Thailand

      http://www.dco.co.th

      ISBN 978-616-7817-98-9

      All Rights Reserved

      This book is a work of fiction. All names, characters, and other elements of the story are either the product of the author's imagination or else are used only fictitiously. Any resemblance to real characters, living or dead, or to real incidents, is entirely coincidental.

      Also by Colin Cotterill

      Dr. Siri Paiboun series

      The Coroner's Lunch (2004)

      Thirty-Three Teeth (August 2005)

      Disco For the Departed (August 2006

      Anarchy and Old Dogs (August 2007)

      Curse of the Pogo Stick (August 2008)

      The Merry Misogynist (August 2009)

      Love Songs from a Shallow Grave (August 2010)

      Slash and Burn (October 2011)

      The Woman Who Wouldn't Die (January 2013)

      Six and a Half Deadly Sins (May 2015)

      The Rat Catchers' Olympics (August 2017)

      Jimm Juree series

      Killed at the Whim of a Hat (July 2011)

      Grandad, There's a Head on the Beach (June 2012)

      The Axe Factor (April 2014)

      The Amok Runners (June 2016)

      Other publications

      Evil in the Land Without (2003)

      Ethel and Joan Go to Phuket (2004)

      Pool and its Role in Asian Communism (2005)

      Cyclelogical (2006)

      Ageing Disgracefully (2009)

      Bleeding in Black and White (2015)

      Contents

      Introduction to Jimm Juree

      Highway Robbery

      Introduction

      Brief description of how the Jurees ended up in Maprao, the buttock-hole of the earth.

      I’ll keep this brief because it still irks me to tell our story. My name is Jimm Juree and I was, at one stage, a mere liver failure away from fame and fortune in Chiang Mai. But our mother, Mair, dragged the family down south to run a decrepit seaside resort on the Gulf of Thailand. I’m a reporter. A real one. And as soon as the head of the crime desk at the Chiang Mai Mail completed his impending suicide by Mekhong Whisky, I was to step into his moldy old shoes; only the second female in the country to hold such a prestigious position.

      Then Mair – nutty as peanut brittle – sold our family home without telling us and headed south. With her went her father, Granddad Jah, the only Thai traffic policeman to go through an entire career without accepting bribes or kickbacks, my brother, Arny, a wimpy lamb with the body of a Greek God, and me. The only one to pass up on family obligation was Sissy, my transsexual brother. Once a cabaret star, and briefly a TV celebrity, now an ageing recluse, Sissy had become something of an internet criminal and although I haven’t forgiven her for deserting us, I do find her skills useful from time to time.

      You see, although I would never have guessed it, Maprao and its environs is a hotbed of crime. Although I’m technically the part-time social events reporter for the shitty local newspaper, barely a week goes by that I’m not chasing down some misdemeanor or another. Our local police (who make the Keystone Cops look like the SAS) are of the belief that I brought all this crime with me from the city. I know that it’s always been here but our gentlemen in brown prefer not to notice it. As they say, and quite rightly too, they just don’t get paid enough to stand in front of a loaded gun. All we get from them are complaints about all the extra paperwork we’re causing them.

      So it’s down to our disjointed family to solve the mysteries and put the perps away. We’re a surprisingly efficient team of crime fighters but I have to confess we were hopeless at running a resort and deserved all the disasters that befell us. At the time of writing this, we still haven’t been able to salvage our monsoon ravaged bungalows from the depths of the bay and we’ve spent the past year doing odd jobs to make ends meet. The bank has been particularly slow in paying out on our disaster insurance claim. But we’re refusing to budge until they do.

      As it

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