Don't Monkey With a Monkey

"Don't Monkey With a Monkey" is a tongue-in-cheek Cthulhu Mythos short story by American author Ron Shiflet. It was published in the collection Looking for Darla: Stories of Mythos Noir by Elder Signs Press in September 2008.
==Synopsis==
Tough Arkham private detective Wade Kearney is hired by former Miskatonic University researcher Horace Wilkins to retrieve a laboratory monkey which has gotten loose. Tracking the beast to a local bar, he finds that it has been given a secret formula which has increased its size, strength, and aggression. During a fight between several bar patrons, local mobsters, law enforcement, and the monkey, a number of people - including Wilkins - end up dead, and the creature collapses drunk. Kearney returns to his office minus his fee, but with an incredible story to tell.
==Behind the Mythos==
In the story, Wade Kearney, a recurrent character in Shiflet's Mythos fiction, mentions another private eye, one "Sweetan over at Discreet Investigations". This would appear to be a reference to Bill Sweetan, another of Shiflet's characters, despite his statement in the story notes for the 2017 edition of Looking for Darla that "[Kearney and Sweetan] are pretty much the same person."
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