CHAPTER NINETEEN Principle number six from Seven Habits of Highly Effective Gumshoes states that when nothing is happening in a case, and you have no idea what you’re doing, set up surveillance on someone and see what happens. So I got in my car and drove over to Ruben Dorian’s address on Petit Avenue in Northridge. As any true professional detective would have, I stopped off and got some donuts and filled my thermos with coffee on the way. Since the principal at Colonnades had cut a deal with Dorian and kept the allegation of misconduct on the down low, he had no problem finding another coaching position within the Los Angeles Unified School District. Having made a few phone calls, I’d learned that Dorian had signed on at Valley Charter High School in Granada Hills, this time as a girl’

