PI Stories I’m Reading: CERI JORDAN “Rough Justice.”

CERI JORDAN “Rough Justice.” First published in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, July/August 2001. Reprinted in The Shamus Winners: America’s Best Private Eye Stories, Volume II: 1992-2009, edited by Robert J. Randisi (Perfect Crime Books, 2010). Here’s am award winning PI story which I’m willing to wager (but not too much) which you’ve never heard of, neither the author nor the story itself. I’m also will to shake your hand if you have. I came across it Robert Randisi’s collection of PWA award-winning short stories, which I highly recommend in case you don’t already own a copy. Authors include the likes of Jeremiah Healy, Loren Estlemnan and Warren Murphy, all of whom I know you know; but also writers such as Mitch Alderson, Pearl Abraham and Michel Wiecek, whom you probably as much in the dark about as I am. Also in the latter group is Ceri Jordam, whose only story to have been published in a major crime fiction magazine is this one. Most of her work, which includes dozens of…