Kenneth Heath, Private Investigator - 136 E Colwen Street
Heath is 34 years old, a veteran detective of the New York City police. He rents this storefront office along with the upstairs apartment.
Three years ago Heath, while halting a bank robbery, lost the four fingers of his left hand to a shotgun blast. He was subsequently pensioned by the force. He and his wife, Madeline, moved to New Jerusalem, her hometown, where Heath opened this office.
Heath is unexpectedly slight of build and wears wireframed glasses. Not at all the Sam Spade type, Heath is a scientific criminologist and an intellectual. He dodges spouse-watching jobs, if he can afford it, preferring to concentrate on more intriguing problems.
In particular, he has been working on one case since 1953. The body of a Missituk student was found floating in the river a few days after Halloween. The evidence seems to link it to a similar murder he investigated years ago in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn. In the Missituk case, the police were baffled and concluded that the student had drunkenly fallen into the river and drowned. The student's parents knew their son to be a teetotaler and did not accept this explanation. Heath so far has been able to link the young man to a local, very secretive cult, about which he has been able to learn little. He is patient, and the statute of limitations has years to go before it runs out.
Heath can be hired for $16 a day plus expenses. He owns his own car, a sporty Bel Air Sport Coupe.
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