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Chapter 6: It Don't Mean A Thing Tina, who had used a pay phone outside the club to place a distress call to the police, returned to her hiding place behind the palm tree at precisely the moment that the Joker doused Stanley with acid. Involuntarily, she gave a strangled cry, and lunged forward while wearing high heels. She toppled into a spare table near the stage. Thus injured and potentially at the mercy of the clown and his assistant, Tina quickly crawled away on her knees, intending to hide backstage. The men didn't notice the crash, but Harleen sat up straight, and narrowed her fierce blue eyes. She stared in the direction from which t

Chapter 5: The Clown, Experimenting With each vicious swing, Tina winced and the masked Stanley was squashed flatter and flatter, until he was just a yellow-and-green round lump, streaked with black-and-white. The Joker swung the mallet like a golf club, and sent the Mask-ball ricocheting around the club. The dynamo hit tables, upturning them completely. Glasses shattered every which way, and shrieks went up from the occupying patrons. Musicians scattered, gathering their instruments and fleeing the club. The Mask-ball spectacularly smashed through a crystal swan on the mayor's table, leaving the portly man and his nubile young consort spark