Our intrepid group of cliches sets forth, nightclubbing we're nightclubbing, something fishy's going on

Session two began with all our investigators, barring Prof Shaftesbury who had some marking to do, starting their investigation of the Kingsport Yacht Club. Lady Lautrec-De'ath used her high society connections to discover that the club was a very exclusive one open only to those with an obscenely high credit rating and even then membership could only be gained through the sponsorship of a current member. After a moments pause our Ladyship put her obscenely high credit rating to work and called her old chum Alastair de Vries who turned out to be a member of the club and invited her for drinks at the decidedly swank Miskatonic Club to catch up and see how he could help. Gathering her colleagues together and getting them to smarten up, something which ranged from Dawson making sure he wore the hat without the bullet-hole to loaning Kalabos a whole suit, De'ath prepared for an evenings nightclubbing.

With but a little negotiation De'ath managed to get the maitre de to allow her motley crew into the exclusive confines of The Miskatonic and over the strains of live jazz introduced them to de Vries who turned out to be a thoroughly spiffing fellow who was amused by the Mexican hobo, intrigued by the detectives work and able to ignore the rudeness of the author. Over drinks and nibbles De'ath talked about her interest in the yacht club and de Vries agreed to call the president emeritus of Kingsport Yacht Club, Oliver Gardiner, right away and put her forward for membership. True to his word he had a telephone brought to the table there and then and arranged with Gardiner that they could go over at eight the next evening so De'ath could sign up. As all this happened Kalabos managed to secrete quite a significant amount of silverware, champagne flutes and ashtrays about his person with only a few suspicious glances from the staff. Armed with an opportunity to have two nights on the razzle in a row the group set out to further their investigations.

Real life has got in the way of completing this weeks blogpost so I'm putting this up now and we'll continue tomorrow.