CHAPTER 41
It was that time again, time to take Duke out for dinner as a thank-you for all his help. It's not that I didn't enjoy our dinners, because I did, I just wished he'd let me pay him for his detective work. To make matters worse, he wouldn't agree to go anywhere 'fancy'; he wanted down home cookin', as he put it. That's how we ended up at Catfish Dewey's for 'all you can eat shrimp' night. Or, in my case, 'all you can't eat shrimp'. I didn't mind because they had the best hush puppies in town (maybe the only hush puppies in town), as well as stuffed jalapeno peppers and fried mushrooms. Basically, anything that might've been healthy to start with, they felt the need to bread and fry. They couldn't help themselves.
"I do have one request," I said to Duke once we were seated in th
