It was a sleepy Sunday afternoon. The television sets in the various apartments nearby were silent. It seemed everybody was having an afternoon siesta.…
When Edward Longfellow turned sixty-six, he determined that four decades of slaving away in a dead-end job was more than he could take. The…
“I am afraid that my career is at stake,” Inspector Rajesh said. Detective James raised his drooping eyes and stared at the man who…
In the desert of Jaisalmer, very few houses were holding their ground in the face of desert storms and a lack of a source…
I usually get into my office by nine AM. My secretary, Shirley, opens the place up at 8:30 and listens to messages before I…
Heinz Noonan, the “Bearded Holmes” of the Sandersonville Police Department, was locked in a life-or-death struggle with the online Thesaurus when Harriet snatched his…
Captain Heinz Noonan, the “Bearded Holmes” of the Sandersonville Police Department, was contemplating a meal without the family, a once-a-month blessing when he got…
Captain Noonan, the “Bearded Holmes” of the Sandersonville Police Department, was enjoying his last cup of coffee for the day. It was also his…
Captain Noonan, the “Bearded Holmes” of the Sandersonville Police Department, was an avid bowler. Not devoted in the sense he was in a weekly…
Captain Noonan, the ‘Bearded Holmes’ of the Sandersonville Police Department, was seated beside the Sandersonville City Pool when he knew he was about to…
In the morning of 23 September, Maria João, a 53-year-old employee of the Joanina Library in Coimbra, woke up at 6, an hour earlier…
