Mister Petty
Jim Butcher
Monster LLC gets by on an extremely low overhead. My office isn't in the pricey part of Chicago, and I sleep there. I don't spend money on advertising. My receptionist works for nothing for reasons that aren't any of your business.
It isn't that I don't have money. You've been alive since most business was done in coins, you have money. It's the principle of the thing. If you're running a business, you should be writing numbers in black ink-which is why not every job I do costs one dollar. I mean, sure, paying The Rent is important to me, but I gotta make enough to use the black pen too, and when you're running a low-end private investigation business, that means doing a lot of divorce and adultery cases, finding small-time embezzlers, that kind of thing.
And sometimes, someone's heard about my real skill set.
My name is Goodman Grey, and I am a professional monster.
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