The dead body of a famous resident who had lived on Silverbirch Lane in the exclusive Montpelier section of Laurel had turned up. What made it a high-profile case was that the corpse was the best-selling writer of horror classics, Jake Venom. Tim Tender found it a little ironic that a book and a flick that the writer had created contained the Tender label as part of their titles.
Tim Tender was good at his craft; he had solved difficult cases, even as young as his business was, which was the reason Mrs. Venom, Vicki, had decided to employ the Tender PI Company. Although PI Tender didn’t proceed in the same aggressive, tough manner as the fictional private detectives Marlowe and Spade, Tim was as determined to find justice as they were.
