"Dirty Deeds," by Donna Andrews, in Malice Domestic: Mystery Most Humorous, edited by John Betancourt, Miochael Bracken, and Carla Coupe, Wildside Press, 2025.
This is Andrews' third appearance in my blog.
The protagonist - if she has a name I didn't catch it - is trying to be a dutiful niece, but Aunt Josephine is not making it easy. Niece wants her to get rid of most of the stuff that is cluttering her house in a dangerous way.
So she should be glad when a nosy neighbor tells her a junk removal firm has just arrived at the aunt's house. Problem is that Dirty Deeds is not any of the companies the niece helpfully researched. Is Josephine being scammed? Surely something, uh, dirty is going on? Yes, and I enjoyed finding out what.
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