Tears in Rain, A Summer Rain mystery - Chapter 5

5 - Blacklight

The file on the desk was an audit of Russalka Ltd, a holding company that included some small shipping and import/export businesses. It was full of boring accountant stuff, in neat precise columns. Math and numbers was never my thing but as far as I could see there was nothing out of the ordinary here. If Russalka was one of Sergey Tarasov’s companies and by extension the mob’s then there had to be more to it. Russalka had to be a shell.
Why hide it in a locked drawer. What were you up to Clay?. Without thinking  I had been fiddling with the marker I found, I decided to check if it worked and scribbled a bit on the paper. Nothing happened. Well no scribbles on paper at least. Why keep a pen that doesn’t work in your desk. I looked at it closely, turned the pen over in my fingers. On the side of it in big bold letters, UV - 2, RED.
I knew it.
Of course. Sometimes I think I might be too dumb to be in the detective business. The pen was a UV pen, it UV ink in red apparently. Only visible under blacklight.
I looked at the seemingly empty whiteboard with new understanding. Invisible ink. That was some real spy shit. All the clues I needed right there hidden in plain sight. Something was definitely going on here.
Like I said curiouser and curiouser, and just like Alice I tumbled down the rabbit hole.   
Damn, how was I going to get my hands on a blacklight