The pressure to discover both who did it and why, however, ends up with Raguel realizing he’s been set up, and he’s expelled from Heaven, and forced to live down and out on the streets of Los Angeles (another City of Angels, but certainly not God’s), swapping his story to a lonely young British man for a couple of cigarettes and a book of matches. It was Heaven’s first-ever crime, and it plays out in much the same way more earth-bound detective stories do, with Raguel questioning a variety of witnesses, and ending with a gathering of the suspects.
But then h’s called upon (by Lucifer, no less), to investigate the murder of Carasel, another angel, in God’s Silver City of Angels. Back when the Universe was still under construction, he had wings, of which he was quite proud. Told in noir-style flashback as a story-within-a-story, it relates the sad story story of broken-down former angel/private eye RAGUEL (often considered the Angel of Vengeance). In the case of comics whiz and storyteller extraordinaire Neil Gaiman, it was in a 1992 dark fantasy short story, “Murder Mysteries.” Sooner or later, everybody dips his toe into the P.I. I tell ya, eventually everyone shows up here on this site.
“And what do you do in the dark, Lucifer?”
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