Confidence Tricks

Private investigator Benson Keirstad agrees to check out Cybil, Mrs. Drummond's long-lost daughter. Tailing the young woman through Anaheim's Downtown Disney district, he discovers an unsavory confidence scheme. When Keirstad finally realizes that his confidence, too, has been betrayed, he fears it's too late for some of those involved. A short story from our Fingerprints mystery/crime line. About the Author Hamilton Waymire was born in New Jersey but raised and educated in Europe. He currently resides in Southern California, where he earns his living teaching philosophy. His story "And Here's to You, Mrs. Edwardson" won the Short Mystery Fiction Society's 2010 Derringer Award in the "Best Flash Story" category. Another Benson Keirstad tale, titled "A Private Eye", can be found in the winter 2010-11 issue of the webzine Mysterical-E.