Nina had expected her great-great uncle’s house to be like mansions in the movies, with marble columns and rose gardens, not peeling paint and a weed-filled lawn. But Dad explained that Waldo hated spending money, except on his collections.Nina’s parents thought the kids were playing outside. Instead, they snuck into the candlelit parlour.“Your mom will […]
Bob Senior, had recently died. His will plainly expressed that his 5 million dollars worth of gold was to go to Bob Junior, but it seemed that Bob Senior (we’ll call him Bob from now on and Bob Junior, Bobby) had hidden his gold and had given him a riddle within the will. Bobby pondered
Duffus Mcclutski loves his tea plain and hot. Every day, he drank several cups which caused a rather large mess on his floor. You see; Duffus didn’t have the steadiest hands and he used his stove to boil the water for his tea, not wanting to buy a kettle. He also refused to have anything
It was Detective QuickWit’s first day on the job in Middleboorn MD. He had been called down to “Uncle Walt’s Travelling Circus Fantastic” to investigate the deaths of two local teenagers.Bill and Ben Brook had been found dead, locked inside Willy Bearish’s Dancing Bear Chuck’s cage. Both boys were covered in bite and claw marks,
There once was a man named Mr. Braun. Not much was known about him, except for these things: he was married to a piano teacher; he was born and lived and married in Germany, and he had died a week earlier. Now, since he was dead and had no other living relatives, his estate would
Detective Sing arrived at the scene of the robbery of a coastal house to find a man, Mr. Jones, complaining that his jewels had been stolen. Detective Sing arranged to have him taken to the local police station to give a statement. After a quick search of the area, they found the thief not far
“Who shot her?” cried Rogers as he rushed into the hospital three minutes after his ex-wife had died from a bullet through her head.“Just a minute, Mr. Rogers,” said Professor Stiggins, “We’ll have to ask you a few questions. Although divorced for the past six months yet you have been living in the same house
It was a gorgeous summer’s day on the scenic shores of Honeymoon Lake in Ontario Canada. Mr. Ode had just bought a new $300 canoe and took it to his yacht club to go for a paddle around the bay. As he was paddling around, he was nearly run over by Bob, one of his
Inspector Will attended the call from Mr. Andrews, and entered the closed display room of the magnificent Andrews’ house. With a quick sweep of his eyes, Inspector Will noted that the room was round (no corners); to the left there was a waiter, next to him a little beverage table with 5 glasses filled with
A woman depended on a public telephone to make her calls, but it was usually out of order. Each day she reported this to the phone company, but nothing was done. Finally, she came up with a fib that she told the phone company. The phone was fixed the next day. What did she tell
Detective Gretchen looked out of her window at a beautiful California sunset, but she was not enjoying it at all. She was sure that Henry was up to no good again, but she didn’t have as clean a case as she needed. She had him under arrest for stealing the jewels from the travelling exhibit
Shaley was devastated. Last night her father died and left her $100,000. Her father left a note to where the money was, but she couldn’t understand what it meant. She immediately called Detective Bowen.When Detective Bowen arrived, he took the note from Shaley. It said:Take 21 tissues off the desk.You will see 14 pictures on
Colin Hammond was working in his study before dinner. As he sat at his desk filling out paperwork, the door behind him opened slowly and silently. Peter Wall was in the room with the door closed behind him before Hammond became aware of his presence.Hammond stood to confront the intruder. “What are you doing here?”
A man’s life was at an all time low. He lost his job, his wife, his house; and now his mom just died in a car accident. After the funeral, a man approached him and told him that his mom had taken a mortgage on the house and left him nothing except one thing. It
Detective Wingate was called to Lab Tech Industries to investigate a murder. Lying on the floor of Lab D was Violet Robinson, dead from an apparent gunshot to the head. There were two drops of blood on her right shoe, her lab coat was missing one button, and the latex glove on her left hand