An excerpt from "Moish and the Mob"
by Raanan Geberer, a fictional look at the old days of Jewish gangsters, published by the Chris Six Books, available from Amazon.com.
After the burglary, it was back to delivering packages, but now Mr. Finkel began to use Moish and Shmooey for other things. One night, Mr. Finkel had them go out to Rockaway to burn down a vacant summer bungalow for the insurance. It was a real schlep to get there, about an hour on the subway, then another hour on the Long Island Railroad. The place was at the end of a dirt road about two blocks from the beach. No lights were on in any of the surrounding bungalows. Everyone had gone home at the end of the season last year, and the new season hadn’t begun. There were no sounds except the waves from the ocean and the chirping of the crickets.
Moish and Shmooey got to work. They laid out some oil-soaked rags, poured a trail of gasoline leading to them, lit a match and ran until they were a block away. Then they watched. They were thrilled when the place went up in flames – just like in the movies! Moish would have stood there watching endlessly if Shmooey hadn’t nudged him, reminding him that they had to get the hell out of there fast in case some cop car just happened to drive by.
As they were walking the few blocks to back to the railroad’s elevated structure, a cab pulled up to them. “Wanna ride?” he asked. Moish turned to Shmooey and mumbled something in his ear. “No thanks, mac,” Shmooey told the cabbie. Moish felt that something wasn’t right – why was he here at this time of night? Maybe the guy was a detective.
A half-hour later, safely on the Long Island Rail Road, they passed over Jamaica Bay, with its remote islands and tiny fishing colonies. To celebrate their success, they lit up a couple of Chesterfields.
A jaded cold case investigator finds himself trying to solve a thirty year old mystery when the skeletal remains of two missing teenagers are found in a national park.
Prime-Time Crime Time (600 pages) is a collection of 35 fictional crime/detective stories and the work is author Jay Dubya's 43rd published hardcover/paperback book.
