Posts Tagged ‘Detective’
Sep
No Explanation Necessary For Looking Good
by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
Detective Stephens surveyed the scene, trying to make sense of it. He could be certain of only one thing. The man was dead.
Stephens could find no explanation for the manner of death. The victim was fully dressed in a suit and tie, but had died from several bullet wounds to his heart. His clothes did not have any holes or blood on them. No one reported hearing any gunshots. A note read that despite his death, he refused to leave the neighborhood.
The mystery was never explained, but the man’s ghost never did leave. At least it was well-dressed.
Jan
The Hard-Boiled Dental Practitioner
by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
When Nora walked into my office, I knew I was headed for trouble, the way a mosquito heads straight for an albino. Her brother was missing, and she wanted me to learn who was responsible. If I could find the 100,000 dollars he stole from her, all the better.
Her brother was the kind of scum that spat in your prescription bottles when he looked in your medicine cabinet. He was wanted by the police, by the mob, by the FBI, by everyone except the U.S. Army.
I told her no thanks. She needed a private dick, not a dentist.
Genre: Noir
Dec
The Great Detective
by thegooddoctor in Uncategorized
It was the case that made him. No motives. No suspects. The victim was by all accounts universally beloved.
When Detective Byrne linked the brand of cigarette ash, the stray button made of gold-lip oyster pearl, and the Stratford Street haberdasher, he was hailed as the living embodiment of Sherlock Holmes.
Within the decade, Byrne was supervising the entire London department. The Haberdasher was eventually executed.
So when the poor widow received an unsigned letter–explaining how her late husband hired an ex-soldier to murder him before Sarcoidosis left him completely debilitated–it was twenty years too late to matter.