Review: Hammering the Handicapped
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 26, 2013
The heroine in this short story is an ex-cop who had her leg crushed by "Sledge" who had a hate on for cops. The hammerman takes some time off but returns to haunt our limping lady again with his tool.Mary Walker is now a private eye on a Yogi Berra mission ..duh. "you can observe a lot just by watching" when she spots a prowler lurking around a warehouse she has been assigned to keep an eye on. You guessed it the prowler turns out to be M.C Hammer.Mary calls her friend, the police dispatcher and asks for backup as she rolls into the warehouse parking lot to confront the Sledge. He charges her like a hobo after a ham sandwich swinging his hammer like it was a toy. Mary gets clobbered a couple of times while she ponders the age old problem...where is a cop when you need one?  But she forgets the citizen's rule of thumb. "When seconds count...police are minutes away!"For some readers there is a twist. Also called a surprise ending.But for those of us with Jr.Detective badges and secret decoder rings heh heh we had the surprise ending figured out the minute Mary started her car and headed for the warehouse, didn't we.While it wasn't exactly a " nail biter" it wasn't a "snoozer" either so I'm giving it Three star.