ELEVEN ON TOP
Chapter One
My name is Stephanie Plum. When I was eighteen I got a
job working a hot dog stand on the boardwalk on the Jersey
shore. I worked the last shift at Dave's Dogs, and I was
supposed to start shutting down a half hour before closing
so I could clean up for the day crew. We did chili dogs,
cheese dogs, kraut dogs, and bean-topped barking dogs.
We grilled them on a big grill with rotating rods. Round
and round the rods went all day long, turning the dogs.
Dave Loogie owned the dog stand and came by every
night to lock the stand down. He checked the garbage to
make sure nothing good was thrown away, and he counted
the dogs that were left on the grill.
"You gotta plan ahead," Dave told me every night. "You
got more than five dogs left on the grill when we close, I'm
gonna fire your ass and hire someone with bigger tits."
So every night, fifteen minutes before closing, before
Dave showed up, I ate hot dogs. Not a good way to go
when you're working at the shore nights and on the beach
in a skimpy bathing suit by day. One night I ate fourteen
hot dogs. Okay, maybe it was only nine, bu ... read full excerpt from Eleven on Top ebook
