"Problems Aren't Stop Signs," by Robert Mangeot, in Mystery Weekly Magazine, September 2018.
This is Mangeot's fourth appearance here.
Tori
is the mayor of a small town in the Florida Panhandle, and she has had
some bad luck. Not that it was her fault, of course. How could she
know, when she stole city funds to buy some land, that the state would
cancel the project they were planing to build on it?
Obviously
there is only one possible solution: convince her useless brother to
dress up as a swamp ape and use her female wiles to persuade a local
reporter to come out where said monster can be witnessed, thereby
bringing a storm of tourists to the site.
Simple, really. What could possibly go wrong?
Mangeot is one of our foremost writers of funny short crime stories.
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