It was one of those cold, cloudless days in December. Snow on the ground, the sky perfectly clear, the air crisp, with no trace of a breeze. The sun is high in the sky and yet it does not melt the snow. Every so often, a deer will prance through a clearing in the forest, and that one glimpse of nature up close leaves you feeling elated, knowing ( Read more... )

One hot Saturday evening in the summer, the Greatest Detective in the World received an urgent message to visit a client at the local watering hole. He strode confidently into the bar and was immediately called over by a man sitting at the counter. The man wore ragged clothes and had just about the ugliest face imaginable. The ugly man immediately ( Read more... )

The Greatest Detective in the World had just exited the big glass doors at the concourse level of the airport and was just about to get into a taxi when he suddenly heard some shouting. He looked up just as two women, one in a police uniform and another in a flight attendant uniform, rushed forward and grabbed him by the arm.

“Detective!” cried the ( Read more... )

The day started off, as they more often did these days, with a row ( Read more... )