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Homicide detective, Johnny Vero, hunts a serial killer who targets dance hall women who charge a fee of ten cents for a 3 minute spin on the dance floor. They are murdered in the Budapest Hotel in certain room numbers which have biblical meanings as to why the killer chooses these rooms. Detective Vero travels to France and works with Interpol to capture the killer.

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Publié par	First Edition Design Publishing
Date de parution	05 décembre 2016
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781506902838
Langue	English

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TenCents A Dance
FeaturingHomicide Detective
JohnnyVero

fredberri

FirstEdition Design Publishing
Sarasota,Florida USA
Ten Cents ADance
Copyright©2014 frederic dalberri

ISBN978-1506-902-82-1 PRINT
ISBN978-1506-902-83-8 EBOOK

LCCN2016952280

September 2016

Published andDistributed by
First EditionDesign Publishing, Inc.
P.O. Box20217, Sarasota, FL 34276-3217
www.firsteditiondesignpublishing.com

ALL RIGHTSRESERVED. No part of this book publication may be reproduced, stored in aretrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means ─ electronic, mechanical, photo-copy, recording, or any other ─ except brief quotation in reviews, without the prior permission of the authoror publisher.

This story isfictional. Any names, places, or situations are a ‘fougasse’. They are purelycoincidental with the exception of historical events, historical names,historical dates or any actual location(s) and facts.

** Fougasse/fu:’ga:s/ is a term used for “fake” or not real. The word originated back inthe seventeenth century to describe a fake rock that was filled with explosivesduring wars. Soldiers would step on these fake rocks, exploding the bomb andcausing serious injury or death. So the rock being fake or not real was termeda fougasse . This novel is a fougasse.

ReaderAwareness
The storyherein is for a mature audience containing adult material that includes coarselanguage, sexual content and violence.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

berri, fred
Ten Cents A Dance / written by fred berri.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-1506-902-82-1 pbk, 978-1506-902-83-8digital

1. FICTION/Thrillers/Suspense. 2. /Romance/Suspense. 3./Criminal.

T2892
In Memory of My lifelongfriend
John Cornelius Bocskay
Criminal Investigator forthe New York, Westchester County,
District Attorney’soffice

Rest in Peace
PROLOGUE
The most recent rash ofmurders was not just a day at police headquarters for Johnny Vero. He wouldorchestrate each homicide like he played each of the four strings on his cello.His childhood dream was to play with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra,traveling the world being the conductor’s principal cellist. He was anaccomplished musician and earned a partial scholarship to the Manhattan Collegeof Music, a well-known music school located on Perry Street, New York City.
Each of the strings tohis cello is tuned in perfect fifths giving the listener a euphoric high. Eachcrime Johnny Vero solved gave him that same rapturous feeling.
Time and an unforeseenoccurrence changed his life from his childhood dream to one of the mostdecorated detectives in New York City.
There was somethingJohnny Vero could have never known. How things would turn out the way they did.Events that made him addicted to solving murders, and nothing, absolutelynothing... was going to change it.
CHAPTER 1
After high school andhis short term with the Manhattan College of Music which is a major musicconservatory located on the upper west side in the Morningside Heights sectionof New York City, Johnny joined the Navy. His original voluntary enlistment,turned into a four year commitment. During his tenure, he served on twodifferent ships, The USS Monrovia which sailed the Mediterranean as a transportassault ship and the USS Keith known for it being a hunter-killer escortdestroyer patrolling the waters of the Atlantic escorting convoys from‘mid-ocean points’ to ports around the world, participating in the assault onSaipan. After the battle of the Philippine Sea, she sailed for Guam to continueassaults and then to Pearl Harbor.
In 1899 the UnitedStates Naval Board issued a report on the results of investigations of theMarconi system of wireless telegraphy. The report noted that the system waswell adapted for use in squadron signaling, under conditions of rain, fog,darkness and motion of speed although dampness affected the performance. Theyalso noted that when two stations were transmitting simultaneously both wouldbe received and that the system had the potential to affect the compass. Theyreported ranges of from 85 miles for large ships with tall masts to 7 miles forsmaller boats. The board recommended that the system be given a trial by the USNavy. Johnny was a quick student absorbing all the data the navy was willing tothrow at him. He was chosen to study this system and became a mastercryptographer.
Much of his training asa cellist would be applied to the training of electronic devices such as telegraphy,cryptography, and wire taps. Johnny applied the words of his classical musicprofessor that he could hear over and over in his mind saying in a deep thickGerman accent; Johan, Johan, Johan, set da strings to vibrate by eedaplucking dem, like a harp, strumming dem, like a guitar or draw da sound outmit a bow. Come, now, Johan, let me hear you do dis. Pretend cello is beautifulwoman you vant to caress. You vant to become one mit her, like it feels to beinside her, feeling her warmth and the sensation you get. He learned thatthe vibrations of the strings are transferred through a wooden pathway into thebody of the instrument, which serves as an amplifier. The air inside of thebody vibrates and produces a warm, full, tone just like the professor said. Whata perfect metaphor... just like being deep inside the woman you’re caressing,feeling her warmth and smoothness all around you. Applying this knowledge,Johnny helped develop a simpler device that would siphon current from atelephone converting it to voice patterns. This earned him three stripes withthe classification of Petty Officer 2nd Class. It earned the Navy fullownership of the patent. Little did Johnny know this knowledge would serve himin later years as a homicide detective?
CHAPTER 2
Johnny’s father was acop who walked a beat on the lower east side of Manhattan in a toughneighborhood known as “Hell’s Kitchen.” This is an area which generally runsfrom Thirty Seventh to Fifty Seventh Streets, West of Eighth Avenue and East tothe Hudson River. It was a bastion of poor working class Irish Americans. An earlyuse of the phrase, “Hell’s Kitchen”, was used by Davy Crockett in 1835 when hesaid, “In my part of the country, when you meet an Irishman, you find afirst-rate gentleman; but these are worse than savages; they are too mean toswab hell's kitchen." He was referring to another section of Manhattanknown as the Five Points where multiple murders would often take place, puttingthe residents in a class as savages. The similarities of ethnicity and crime inboth neighborhoods became such that there had to be a distinction from oneanother. So, the area from Thirty Seventh to Fifty Seventh Streets became knownas the infamous “Hell’s Kitchen” and the area known as the five points remainedas the five points.
CHAPTER 3
Officer John Vero, Sr.,would walk his same beat every day while on duty twirling his nightstick withthe rhythm of a drum major leading a parade band. In his everyday routine, hewould check doors and alleyways and help the residents and shop owners copewith their daily anxieties of the petty crimes and domestic disputes.Occasionally he would use the call in box on the corner for the purpose ofcontacting the precinct having to say; “Send the paddy wagon over. We have afew drunks.”
On this particular day,Officer Vero walked into the First American Savings and Loan Bank on EightAvenue and Thirty Seventh Street. In his usual manner, Officer Vero would greetthe manager who sat at a front desk when you first entered through the doors. Thisday and only this day Officer Vero who walked into the same bank countlesstimes walked into what looked like, in is mind, a Broadway show .
The manager, assistantmanager and secretary were standing on their desks with their hands in the airas if they were about to choreograph a singing and dancing segment in a bigstage production. People were lying on the floor and the bank tellers were allstanding on top of the counters. What Officer Vero didn’t know was that hewalked into an unsuspected robbery in progress, realizing this is not aBroadway show . In the moment he realized what was happening and before hewas able to draw his weapon, yelling, “Mother Mary of God,” he was shot andkilled by the two bullets that pierced into his chest.
Countless lives changedwithin these few seconds.
CHAPTER 4
Johnny Vero’s addictionwas born.
CHAPTER 5
Petty Officer 2nd ClassJohnny Vero had to end his naval career early, due to his mother’s nowhardship, and return home helping his mother, Norma, arrange a different lifethat she was accustomed to.
Johnny was hired by NewYork Power and Light Company as a telephone pole trouble shooter due to hiselectronic and wiring expertise the Navy taught him. His job was to find hotspots before they would occur and cause a blackout.
He grew to hate his job,constantly thinking of how his father was ruthlessly gunned down. Now this punkshit head is serving a life sentence in Sing Sing Correctional Facility, amaximum security prison located on the east bank of the Hudson River in thetown of Ossining, New York. This doesn’t seem equitable , he oftenthought.
Johnny would constantlylook in The Chief-Leader, (the weekly newspaper known for in-depth coverage forFirefighters, Police, Sanitation Workers, Teachers and other public servants aswell as job openings and exams) scouring for when the police exam would be.
The moment Johnny gotword he passed the police exam and was accepted into the police academy,without hesitation, quit his job with New York Power and Light Company. He knewthen and there, all he wanted going forward was to get the scum off the streetslike the scum that murdered his father. He endeavored to strive to becomeaddicted to solving homicides which came to Johnny as easily as doing theSunday newspaper crossword puzzle, in ink.
He would read ‘True Detective,’a popular periodical magazine featuring homicides and how the detectives