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Serve It Cold by Ronnie Blackwell
Mystery
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Detective Jonny C. Speed’s life can’t get much better. He’s booked into the French Quarter’s most luxurious guesthouse, and his day job as convenience store manager is 104 miles behind him in Catherine, Mississippi. He’s already taken care of one pro-bono missing persons job since he’s been in New Orleans, and his paying client’s cheating wife is a beautiful and very accommodating exhibitionist. Are things too good to be true? Of course they are. Jonny starts to worry when his client turns up dead, but when the suspects start dropping, Jonny and his crack team of beauty queens, recovering addicts, professional athletes, computer hackers, and pampered dogs find themselves caught in a twisted scheme of revenge that threatens to turn the town of Catherine inside out.
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Chapters
| Title | Description | Date Created |
| Episode 1 (19.01 MB) | Convenience store manager, Jonny C. Speed, is accused of stealing marijuana from Narleen Moore. Narleen calls her brother Goat Johnson and the cops to set them on Speed. | May 24, 2007 |
| Episode 2 (17.77 MB) | Jonny finds evidence in the parking lot and heads into the woods. After an incident in the woods Jonny goes to The Cradle to visit Goat. Goat bought The Cradle and is refurbishing it to be a club again. Jonny gets a divorce case in New Orleans. | May 24, 2007 |
| Episode 3 (16.17 MB) | Jonny starts working his divorce case and surveils the Granthams: Landis, Latimer, and Lilian. Go Joe Jackson takes over the routine investigations. | May 24, 2007 |
| Episode 4 (17.53 MB) | Goat introduces Jonny to Sonny Richard, who was beaten the night before. Sonny tells Jonny about how Narleen got the marijuana. Jonny gets evidence in the divorce case. | May 24, 2007 |
| Episode 5 (16.64 MB) | Jonny heads to New Orleans to start his divorce case and find Narleen. Jonny checks Sonny's past with Steve at Margaritaville. He finds Narleen and brings her back to Margaritaville for lunch. | May 24, 2007 |
| Episode 6 (20.87 MB) | Safe and sound at Cheeseburger in Paradise, Narlene tells Jonny C how she ended up in New Orleans with Jerry and Ray. And how she managed to get away to the French Market. Jonny C and Narlene gather supplies for the French Quarter apartment. | Jun 12, 2007 |
| Episode 7 (20.6 MB) | On the way to the apartment, Jonny and Narlene find Jerry's car parked illegally in the French Quarter and ask Tommy to keep an eye on it. They settle in to the third floor apartment and discreetly watch the goings on out on the street. Jerry shows up--dressed oddly--but can't get in the car that has a hot date with a tow truck. | Jun 24, 2007 |
| Episode 8 (25.41 MB) | Jonny checks in with his clients Goat Johnson and Landis Grantham. Jonny and Narlene's hopes are raised when a team of plain clothes detectives arrive clearly on the hunt for someone, but they soon realize the cops are after a pickpocket team working the crowd around the street band instead of Jerry and Ray. So it goes. | Jul 7, 2007 |
| Episode 9 (21.58 MB) | Jonny and Narlene have dinner with the Tommy's. Jonny gets a little off the sides and a trim--ready for his surveillance later that night. | Jul 17, 2007 |
| Episode 10 (26.99 MB) | Jonny checks in at The Guest House and finds a friend he's never met before. The surveillance for Landis Grantham's divorce case takes Jonny to an art show opening for Catherine's finest artist, Cindy Aultman. Her subjects turn out to be rather unexpected. | Jul 27, 2007 |
| Episode 11 (22.71 MB) | Surveillance on "The Granthams" goes like clockwork. But something about it just doesn't seem to be quite right. Jonny discovers another friend of Big John Turner. | Aug 7, 2007 |
| Episode 12 (22.54 MB) | Jonny drops by the Tommy's to check in with Narlene and change his disguise before trailing the "happy couple" through the French Quarter. He still can't shake the nagging feeling that Lily Banks and Lattimer Grantham are making getting evidence for the divorce case just too damn easy! | Aug 14, 2007 |
| Episode 13 (20.73 MB) | Lunch at Mother's with the Tommys and Narlene is interrupted by unsettling news from Catherine. What's a hardworking private detective to do? Why, have desert and fine wine at the Napoleon House and rally the troops! | Aug 21, 2007 |
| Episode 14 (27.57 MB) | Jonny C and Narlene head back to Catherine. They stop to do a little bird watching to throw off anyone tailing them and Jonny C tells the story of the "Battle of Lake Catherine". | Sep 10, 2007 |
| Episode 15 (28.7 MB) | Jonny finishes telling Narlene the story of the "Battle of Catherine". Mafioso, guns, drugs, DEA, explosions, and the last time Jonny saw Big John Turner. | Sep 17, 2007 |
| Episode 16 (27.32 MB) | Jonny and Narlene return to Catherine. Jonny calls everyone together to brainstorm what their next move should be. | Sep 26, 2007 |
| Episode 17 (22.87 MB) | Circumstances look pretty bad for Jonny C and the gang: no client, no payment, and Jonny's actions could be misconstrued as stalking Landis Grantham. Seems it's always darkest before the cops show up.... | Oct 3, 2007 |
| Episode 18 (24.87 MB) | Butch Ellis invites himself over to Jonny's house for morning coffee amidst the herd of over-excited dogs. Go Joe and Lurker make plans to 'fish up' more information on Lattimer Grantham. And Jonny, Narlene and Sonny look for a Louisiana needle in a Mississippi haystack. | Oct 11, 2007 |
| Episode 19 (25.86 MB) | The search for clues in the Grantham murder case continues. The crack Speed investigative team turn their attention to the old Arnold Line trail. Could they have found the much needed break in the case? | Oct 21, 2007 |
| Episode 20 (30.53 MB) | Jonny C and the crew head for New Orleans to try to find Ray. Meanwhile back in Catherine, Jonny's carefully crafted reconstruction of the crime turns out to be dead wrong. | Nov 2, 2007 |
| Episode 21 (30.16 MB) | New Orleans can be a dangerous place: you can get your wallet stolen, your door kicked in, or your shoulder dislocated before most French Quarter residents even get out of bed. On the brighter side, you can get breakfast at Poppy's around the clock. | Nov 7, 2007 |
| Episode 22 (27.51 MB) | Jonny and Vera discuss shocking news from Catherine. Vera tells Jonny a story from her past--The House of Blue Lights. | Nov 18, 2007 |
| Episode 23 (30.04 MB) | Back in Catherine, Jonny goes out to Burnt Bridge with Butch to have a look at the famous blue Stratus. They decide to look around the family farm in Covington County then head back home to Catherine. Will this day ever end? | Dec 1, 2007 |
| Episode 24 (46.68 MB) | Jonny wakes up to find some surprising visitors at the house helping themselves to his coffee! | Dec 11, 2007 |
| Episode 25 (29.26 MB) | Denouement. John Turner's favorite literary term. Loose ends get tied up. But there is still a surprise or two left in this tale! | Dec 21, 2007 |