Preview-Chapter 1-"The BEANO Murders"

Prologue

A television set was on, with a political advertisement. Mayoral Candidate and City Attorney Grenfell Marstern was the star of this blurb in the 6:30pm time slot on TV 25. Marstern, a crusading politico, was showing how people were being protected, as the blurb showed the quick action he had taken against a wine shop in Alston-Brighton, for posting a sign reading ''Drink red wine to your health.''

Over at the Mayor's Office of Licenses, Ivan Yevot, Chief Investigator of Licenses, was watching the ad he helped produce. Ivan is also one of the leading campaign aides for Marstern. Ivan, a bespecled man in his 50s, lives with his parents in a condominium in Back Bay along Boylston Street. His parents are owners of a Boston communications giant, Harborbay Wireless, the official electronic device supplier to Boston's Municipal Services.
Ivan, an only child, doesn't have any social skills. He has a fetish for blonde women and mocks Asian women. He often disappears into his ''Library''(bathroom) with sex magazines, in order to pleasure himself. On coffee breaks, he ogles blonde women, one of whom slapped his face, after which he was heard muttering ''My library is a lot safer'', where he then went & did his thing. Sometimes he rides around Chinatown by South Station, looking out for beautiful Asian women, preferably Chinese women, and hollers ''Sucky-Fucky G. I.'', in order to get his jollies & laughing about it.

Veronica Mc Dermott from Dorchester, a Senior Investigator with the Bureau of Licenses, was writing reports on her findings of an unlawfully conducted Midnight BEANO Game at a hall in Roxbury, run by ''Friends of Yeshiva Yehuda Friedman.'' She's rather-intuitive since why would a game be held at Midnight, Sunday Morning. She had issued a violation order for an unlicensed game and for violation of the statute forbidding Midnight games. There was also something most people didn't know. She discovered that Grenfell Marstern's Cousin was the organizer of these games.
Veronica contacted the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations to inquire about the existence of the school in Massachusetts, as Massachusetts Lottery Law only allows for New England Based organizations to be licensed for BEANO. Her e-mail directed her to the official website, which showed that no such school even existed anywhere in New England. She then contacted Marstern's Cousin by phone. In the conversation, Cousin Bernie revealed that this was done on behalf of Rabbis David and Baruch Bernstein, whose school is located in the Williamsburgh Section of Brooklyn, NY. She was scheduled to meet with the Boston Police Vice Unit, with the leading investigator, Detective 1st Grade Paul ''Southie'' O'Brien, who was the one who discovered much of the morass that BEANO had become, with legitimate organizations being replaced by fraudulently-created paper.

At 0930, Veronica, or ''Ronnie'' as she preferred to be called, met with Detective O'Brien at a coffee shop in Copley Square. Ronnie was also Southie's Amica. Both were exchanging information on the games, when she revealed the conversation she had with Marstern's Cousin Bernie:
''Grenfell Marstern's Cousin Bernie is running games for Friends of Yeshiva Yehuda Friedman. He's running them for 2 Rabbis named Bernstein. They're from a place called Williamsburgh, Brooklyn'';
Southie then remarked ''It's a land of mystery south of Broadway, by a bridge, where you have to have a knowledge of Yiddish in order to make it there. I was born in Brooklyn and moved up here when I was 8'';
Ronnie mentioned that violations were served on this outfit. She also mentioned that Ivan Yevot changed the hearing time and date without her knowledge, in order to get the summonses dismissed. O'Brien said ''Yevot is too busy on knee pads for Marstern, covering up all his dirty little secrets. Funny thing is that Yevot is dressed in a Nazi SS Uniform on his Facebook page & hates Jews. He's a fuckin' jerk.'' Ronnie then revealed that on a Bazaar detail, she had issued several violations only to be jumped by the organizer, a local thug who runs a local development corporation. Yevot demanded that she apologise to the thug, even though she suffered a nasty sprained ankle. He mentioned that to apologize will benefit ''The Team''. Southie cracked that ''team'' has ''At Me'' embedded in the word, and Yevot and the thug are members of the same political club in Back Bay, often sharing tickets in the Coca Cola Corner at Fenway Park.
O'Brien ''See you Sunday for Mass and Breakfast.'' He and Ronnie embraced and kissed tenderly. Ronnie returned to her office.

Yevot announced to Ronnie that the change of hearings was done to protect the City of Boston from embarassment and scandal. Then he spoke in a hushed, threatening tone, ''This investigation can cost you big time. I can have you fucked out of a promotion. I can get people to lie about you and ruin your reputation. The people won't believe you. They will believe me. I can have you broken. I'm that well-connected.''
Ronnie started to weep. Yevot made an entry in his dossier, remarking that ''Mc Dermott is mentally-unstable. As far as I'm concerned, she suffered a nervous breakdown''.
Southie got a call from a sobbing Ronnie over this behavior by Yevot. Southie called Yevot with ''You've got the biggest conflict of interest in this town covering for Marstern, burying his relatives violations. You should quit while you're ahead, you asshole'' & hung up.

2200 hours-the phone rings at Southie's pad in Dorchester. P.O. Lafferty tells Southie to come to Park Street Station on the ''T'' Red Line. Lafferty called it ''A horrible accident. A woman was shoved to her death in front of an outbound Red Line train headed to Ashmont''.
Southie arrived at the Park Street station entrance. A body in body bag was on the sidewalk. Southie was shown the face of the victim. Southie, never known for emotion, never cried so hard in his life. Ronnie was taken away from him. It was going to be a long night for Southie.