After dropping Kip back at his office, it was time for me to get to work. First thing on my list was to call the only P.I. whose office was a bar stool at "The Big Easy", my former client and the president of his own fan club, Marmaduke Broussard, III, a/k/a Duke. With his shoulder-length brown hair, shark tooth necklace and alligator boots, Duke looked more like a pirate than a P.I. to me, but then, I wasn"t sure what a P.I. was supposed to look like. To say he had a way with the ladies didn"t begin to cover it, but for him, it was both a blessing and a curse. It"s also how we met. No, we didn"t date (that"s never going to happen), he was my client. I handled Duke"s extremely messy divorce from Wife Number Three, Candy Broussard (she kept the name "Broussard" just to piss him off). Candy
