"Giles," the bald headed, yellow suited mayor called out and presented the gun. "Please take this and stash it in the secret armory!"

A middle aged man arrived in a penguin like tuxedo. He had dirty blond hair and one of his eyebrows seemed to be raised above the other in an inquisitive manner. "It's not so secret now!" the butler said with a roll of his eyes.

"Oh my lawd!" Mina exclaimed with her hand to her mouth. "Your secret armory? Is that where you stored the bombs to blow up your competition?!"

"Gadzooks woman!" Monty Banks exclaimed as the butler took the gun off his hands. "Whose side are you on? Aren't you supposed to be defending me in court?"

"Well..." Mina said as she gazed around the foyer with its large staircase and balcony. "Did you blow Greta Goode to smithereens?"

"Mina!" Raven squawked in anger. "Did you really just say that?! Of course he's innocent..." Raven stuck his beaklike nose in Monty's face. "You are right?"

A high pitched wavery voice echoed from the top of the stairs. "Of course he's innocent, dahlings!"

Everyone gazed to the top of the steps where a young woman stood. She sported an antiquated hoop skirt of pink and purple lace, bright red scarlet hair and a pair of fans. A pair of spherical earrings that resembled peaches dangled from her ears. Mina and Raven's mouths hung open stupified. "What the zowie is she wearing?!" Mina exclaimed.

"Did we stumble onto the set of a remake of Gone With the Gusts?" Raven said, crossing her arms as the suave woman walked down the steps, seemingly out of another era.

"Of course not," the balding mayor said, hungrily rubbing his hands together. "That's my Georgia Peach!"

"Three guesses where she's from..." Mina muttered. "Is she your daughter?"

The mayor gave a loud guffaw and chuckle that made Mina deeply uncomfortable. "She's my girlfriend!"

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Georgia Peach reached the bottom of the steps and flapped a purple paper fan open in Mina's face. "Fiddle dee dee," she laughed with opulent satisfaction. "A lower class girl like you would never understand our love! Which transcends age!"

"And bank accounts!" Raven said, giving Mina a playful nudge.

"Anyway," Georgia guffawed. "My dear ol' daddy would never commit such a heinous crime! He's simply not that kind of man!"

"Well..." Mina muttered. "He did have a motive and previous misdemeanors!"

"Hey now," Monty exclaimed. "I am not a crook. What's a couple tax cuts between friends? Besides, I have an alibi!"

"Do you now?" Mina muttered. "I really hope you do because you two are the definition of sus!"

"I hope sus means..." Georgia Peach exclaimed. "Sus-pecial! Because that's what we are..."

The normally bubbly Mina growled causing them both to flinch. "Stop wasting our time and just tell me what you were doing last night, Mr. Banks."

"Er...I..." the mayor said, his voice lisping some more and his eyes bulging. "I was doing..."

"Little old me!" Georgia Peach said with a blush and a giggle.

Mina's jaw nearly dropped. "What the huh?!"

"No shame that girl..." Raven said with a casual smile. "Yes. I guess you two were having your little fun. You are a pair of 'young lovers' after all...well half of you are."

"Really?!" Mina exclaimed, her hands dropped in disbelief. "You're really gonna let him go for being such a sleaze?! Greta Goode would never cause such a scandal and I have to say I..."

"That's good enough for me," Raven said. "I mean, the mayor has a witness who was with him all night."

Mina was completely silent, but she pushed out her pasty cheeks in anger. "My lawd...I hate this case..."

"You shouldn't," Raven laughed and placed a hand on her back. "We prove this simple fact in court and we're rolling in the Washington's, Lincoln's, Benjamins and whoever the current president is!"

Mina bit her lip and turned to Monty Banks and his girlfriend. "Sweet Nelly," the mayor said in his goofy voice. "We'd appreciate it so much, Miss Attorney."

"We'd totally thank the stars...and you!" Georgia Peach said, as she wrapped her arm around her boyfriend.

"And uh..." Monty Banks said, looking Mina over. "You uh...look kinda young. Did you graduate from law school?"

"Uh yeah..." Mina said softly. "Why do you ask?"

The mayor gave a wide smile that stretched across his bowling ball like head. "I might be able to waive some student loans and..."

Mina grasped her chest. "Say no more!" she said and she dropped to her knees. "Thank you sweet corruption!"

Mina was starting to rethink her stance on the crooked mayor when the doorbell rang.

"Gadzooks Giles!" Monty Banks said. "Who is it now?"

The middle aged butler walked over and peered through the door's looking glass. "Cops sir. And a big scary lady cop with a mom hairdo!"