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    Space Needle Case
    Space Needle Case
    Space Needle Case
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    Space Needle Case

    By D. E. Harrison

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    It is a clear, warn day in a city where rain is the only sure thing. From the Space Needle’s observation deck, you can see for ten miles. Needle security is stuffing the elevators going down, so that they can keep the maximum number of paying people on the deck.
    An unexplainable and unbelievable event occurs. Someone falls or jumps off the Needle. A filming TV crew gets his last few feet before slamming into the pavement. The film is on the TV, all over the country in twenty minutes.
    Inspector Strong and his homicide team arrive soon after the police commander and medical people.
    The commander on site tells the Inspector, “The Needle is idiot proof. There is no way he could have jumped from any place on the Needle.”
    Lasers are brought in to see if they can tell where he fell from. Water is poured from the roof to see where it lands. The roof is inspected by walking on it by Detective Rage and Officer Jones.
    The Chief of Police needs the case solved quickly, to get the city back to normal for the tourists.

    What of the man that hit the pavement? Maybe he came from an airplane? He cannot be identified, even by the FBI. How long will the Needle be closed and how long will the sunshine last?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherD. E. Harrison
    Release dateAug 10, 2018
    ISBN9780463860533
    Space Needle Case
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    D. E. Harrison

    I am trained as a theoretical mathematician. I am an emeritus member of the American Mathematical Society for fifty odd years. I have lived in Seattle since 1967. I starting writing fiction after writing a family history.

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      Space Needle Case - D. E. Harrison

      Space Needle Case

      By D. E. Harrison

      Copyright 2010 by D. E. Harrison

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      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1 The Tumble

      Chapter 2 The Last Half of the First Day.

      Chapter 3 Day Two

      Chapter 4 The Second Day in the Afternoon.

      Chapter 5 Day Three

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      Chapter 1 The Tumble

      Seattle is one city where very few people even own an umbrella, no less use it. But a few people will carry one in January, when it may rain 33-days straight in January. Even the slugs use a boat during this time.

      The rainfall has been the normal four inches plus a month since March through June. The weather in Seattle has a few local descriptions that will mean something only to the locals. Such as, ‘occasional sun breaks’ means you will have intermittent showers. The ‘filtered sun’ means a continual mist will be falling. Partly cloudy means less than 1/4 of an inch of rain. Lastly, no matter how much it rains there will never be a mud puddle for the kids to play in several hours later.

      It is not raining, nor has it been for three days in this somewhat wet city. This is most welcome by the tourists and hotels. But such a long dry spell does have some people looking to the sky for relief. The tourists are out like worms after a heavy rain. The lines of tourists are long everyplace. The Pike Place market, a huge tourist trap is packed. The Seattle Center is not as much as it was in the past. Now it is just a few indoor shops and a few outdoor tourist’s traps.

      Of course, the Space Needle has lines of people going around the base of the Needle waiting to go up to the observation deck. On a day like today, one can see for ten miles. If you walk slowly around the observation deck, you can see in every direction. They are counting the people going up and back down. This is to keep within the number set by some city hall bean counter that has never been to the Needle. The average time is about seventeen minutes per person on the observation deck. The elevators provide a steady stream of people going up and coming down. There is more crowing around in the lines waiting for the elevators going up to the observation deck than those going down. There is security to handle the crowd trying to go up. Up on the observation deck security’s only job is to insure the elevators going down are full. On a good day the elevators speed is ten miles per hour. This make the trip of four hundred feet last only thirty seconds or so. The Needle is well over 500 feet tall with the observation deck at the 520-foot level. The restaurant below the deck makes a complete revolution every 47-minutes. A one-horse motor power’s it. Not a team of slugs as some tourists would claim.

      They have security guards very visible with the crowds waiting in lines all around the base of the Needle. They have fewer noisy unhappy tourist when an officer in a uniform is nearby. It also stops any street people from becoming a nuisance.

      There are screams from the crowd around the base of the Needle as they are taking picture. Some people are looking almost straight up.

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