“Kaitlyn!” I shrieked when I saw my best friend run through the door, “You’re back!”Kaitlyn had been vacationing at Myrtle Beach for a week and we couldn’t wait to see each other. She glanced at my ears. “Where are your ear-rings?”She was referring to a pair of ear-rings she had bought me for my birthday […]
Elliot the detective heard the news of a double murder that occurred on a train.“The driver and the conductor were on the opposite ends of the train, but both were shot at the same time”, reported a policeman who was at the center of the train at the time. The policeman had heard both gunshots
Carrie, Olivia, Johnathan, Micheal and Joel all went on a school camping trip. Due to rain, they couldn’t sleep in tents, so they were led up to the camp dorms. When they were shown to their rooms, which were directly across from each other, they were told that it was thirty minutes since lights were
Polly Perkins was after a talking parrot, so she went to the local pet shop in the hope of securing such a parrot. She had good luck. The shop assistant assured her that the parrot would learn and repeat any word or phrase it heard. Polly was delighted. However, a week later, the parrot still
Detective Sing sat across the table from his friend, John.John had just come back from seeing a sleep therapist. He claimed that he would be able to cure John’s insomnia forever, if John agreed to spend a week at his “Sleep Camp”. The catch was that the treatment cost for a week was “$5,000”.“But it’ll
“Hurry up, Alexa!” I shouted as I struggled with the door knob, which proved difficult to turn in my heavy gloves, “We are going to be late!”My sister, Alexa, appeared from around the corner and helped me with the door knob before putting on her own bulky gloves.We were going to meet a few other
When the police arrived, a man was lying dead under a car. Investigations revealed that although he was not the owner yet he was the last person to drive it. The car had last been driven that morning, but the man’s time of death was established at about3 p.m. The owner of the car was
Detective Tissue was surveying the scene. A woman, who by many was thought to be eccentric, lay dead in the cave. She kept an animal as a “watchdog”. Only this animal was, in fact, a duck. She was out to be killed by an unknown man, so she hid in the cave. Not even she
Terence was a very clever detective, and had solved crimes that many private eyes more experienced than him had been stumped with. His latest task had been with a young man named James Apollo.His neighbour had been burgled last month. James, being a very paranoid man, immediately set to work with covering his floor with
“Check it out,” John said to his friend, Detective Sing, over dinner one night. “For a mere $5,000 I could purchase one of the rarest annuals around, Bulbous Aromaticus.“I was talking to a horticulturist, and she said she was willing to sell me one of the plants and then, each year when it flowered, she
The Seekers of Knowledge found themselves on another quest. This time they had to enter the great wizard tower of Vanya. She was to be caught and brought back to the city of Raptin for justice to be served.Within the tower, the group had encountered many deadly traps and a few roaming monsters. These monsters
One Saturday morning, Veya saw the three musketeers in the mall. Three friends—Pep, Asia and Fe-Fe—call themselves by that name because they are always together.“I’ve been shopping for sandals,” Pep told Veya. “But I have such a wide foot; nothing seems to fit. We’ve been looking everywhere.”“And it’s been slow-going,” Fe-Fe added, “because of Asia’s
“8:00 a.m. Friday? I’ll be there, with bells on.” Nora Shekrie said as she hit ‘end’ on her cell phone, pleased with the call. After more than a month of casual contacts and interactions, Wilby Habenpfun, the handsome bank manager, had asked her personally to attend a function with him. The invitation was based on
A father took his sons to an amusement park one day. He told them to meet him at the entrance at 5:00 later that day. When the kids finally showed up at the end of the day, it was 5:30. The father said that he was angry and wouldn’t take them again for a whole
Larry is in police custody for a suspected robbery. There is some evidence that he stole a watch out of a locker where he worked.“What happened at the factory, Larry?” Chief Brossard asked. “I came to work at 5:00 am as I always do. We worked until noon when we ate lunch, which lasted an