Murder On The Moon Pier
A Declan Rourke Novel
Book One
By J. H. Irwin
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Toledo Beach Dance Hall
Chapter 3: Toledo Beach
The trolley didn’t slow so much as ease into it.
Toledo Beach announced itself before the car stopped.
Light hit first.
Not steady. Not clean. It flickered and shifted, spilling through the windows in broken color. Reds. Golds. Electric blues. The kind of light that didn’t settle.





