Merrill-Go-Round

A Short Story by New York Times Best-Selling Author Marcia Muller

"Merrill-Go-Round" is McCone's first recorded short case—a private-eye story that is also a "woman's story," in the best sense of that term.

Excerpt

I CLUNG to the metal pole as the man in the red coat and straw hat pushed the lever forward. The blue pig with the bedraggled whisk-broom tail on which I sat moved upward to the strains of "And the Band Played On." As the carousel picked up speed, the pig rose and fell with a rocking motion and the faces of the bystanders became a blur.