KERRY CHARLTON’S

　

MIKE HAMMER”S REVENGE

FINALE

　

　

　

Two white gorillas, each carried 250 pounds of muscle, appeared at the top of

the stairs. Confused that they might be seeing a drunken, domestic battle, they hurried

down to help. When they saw it was Ruth and Sam Spade, they reached for their steel,

but Mike cold-cocked the biggest and he tumbled down the narrow flight of stairs,

landing like a small Buick. The second goon had grabbed his rod but had little time to

use it, as Sam smashed the back of his head with his 38.

It didn’t slow him down much and he managed to fire one round which grazed

Ruth’s cheek. Mike placed his gun against the goons ear and squeezed the trigger. He fell

like a redwood tree and lay still on the stairwell.

“The hell with being the good guy,” Mike said.

The three charged up the stairs and burst through Big Jake’s door. Effie and Dee

Dee were tied to chairs and stripped nude. Big Jake held a long carving knife, tested with

his thumb for sharpness He laughed as he saw Ruth leading the gumshoes, both pistols

drawn and dripping blood from her cheek..

“Goodbye Jake“, she hollered and emptied both guns into his body. Amazingly,

he lunged toward her and managed to squeeze off one shot which blew a hole through

Ruth’s neck. He then staggered back and fell over his desk with enough lead in him to

cast an army of toy soldiers.

A dead stare overtook Ruth’s eyes as Sam took off his coat and gently laid it

across her body,

“Dames”, he said, “you never realize they can be heroic when they need to. He

kneeled next to her,

‘I’m going to miss you ‘doll face’, we all will.”

Mike took off his coat, covered Effie’s nakedness and untied her, moved over to

Dee Dee and covered her with his shirt and released her ropes. Both girls were still in

shock, having come close to being butchered by a mad man. .Sam remained by Ruth’s

body with a look of disbelief.

` The bouncer and four minions from the club entered the room cautiously, rods

drawn. Mike stood behind the door and stepped in view,

“It’s finished boys, the party’s over. There’s no sense in killing each other.”

The bouncer caught the fright in the eyes of the captured girls and dropped his

gun to the floor and mentioned for Big Jake’s thugs to do the same. “how many times I

wanted to kill him myself,’ the bouncer thought, as he remembered scenes like this, and

had seen what Jake could do to women.

Probably only the bouncer knew how much Jake really hated women The prettier

the girl , the more intense the hate consumed him. And now, all this was behind him, no

more cow tailing to Jake’s weird desires. ‘Dead men don‘t do sex,’ the bouncer thought..

A couple of patrons had called the police, they stormed the night club, releasing

the patrons who were more than happy to leave. Sgt. O’Malley climbed the back stairs

over one thug who had broken his neck with his fall down the stairs, another whose

brain had splattered across the upper part of the staircase. When O’Malley entered the

　

room, he sighted the partially covered Dee Dee and Effie, Big Jake lying across his desk

in a pool of blood. His body looked like a rancid piece of Swiss cheese. Then his eyes

really blinked, Sam Spade and Mike Hammer, were talking to a mountain of a man and

four more who looked like more thugs,

He noticed Ruth’s body lying on the floor,

“Anyone left breathing is under arrest,” O’Malley said. Five more police entered

Big Jake’s office. It resembled a black and white, where ten characters surrounded a

detective, while the story was laid out for the audience to understand. However O‘Malley

understood none of it and two gumshoes, two half dressed women and a bouncer and

four thugs were loaded in three police cars that headed downtown.

‘Lieutenant Houlihan’s gonna love this one,’ O’Malley thought as the cars sped to

their destination.

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