title: Gilded Latten Bones: A Garrett, P.I., Novel
author:  Glen Cook 
description: <b>Glen Cook</b>used to work the assembly line at a General Motors plant, writing in between helping to build cars as they came down the conveyor belt. He has written extensively in the science fiction and fantasy fields, and is the author of the Garrett, P.I., novels and the Black Company alternate history series.
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  Glen Cook
  
  
  Dread Brass
  
  
  Shadows
  
  
  From the files of Garrett, P.I.
  
  
  # 1
  
  
  Whew! The things I get me into!
  
  
  We had snow hip deep to a tall mammoth for four weeks, then it turned suddenly
  hot and the whole mess melted quicker than you could say cabin fever. So I was
  out running and banging into people and things and falling on my face because
  the girls were out stretching their gorgeous gams and I hadn’t seen one leg,
  let alone two, since the snow started falling.
  
  
  Running? Garrett? Yeah. All six feet two and two hundred pounds, poetry in
  motion. All right. Maybe it was bad poetry, doggerel, but I was getting the
  hang of it. In a few weeks I’d be back to the old lean and mean I’d been when
  I was twenty and a crack Marine. And pigs would be zooming around my ears like
  falcons.
  
  
  Thirty isn’t old to somebody who’s fifty, but when you’ve spent a few years
  making a career of being lazy and the belly gets a little less than washboard
  and the knees start creaking and you start puffing a