They pulled up outside an old weatherboard house. Jim Kelly glanced at his watch. ‘Eleven fifteen, not bad timing. You all right now, Quenton?’ he said, twisting to face the boy, who was in the back seat. Snook chuckled. ‘He oughta be, after spewing up all those potato chi...
‘Absolutely brilliant!’ Snook gushed. ‘You solved the puzzle and found Wu Han’s collection. Nice one! I knew you would. Knew it all the time.’ He looked over at Reg. ‘I guess we’d better take it back to Mr Wu now though, like Jars promised.’ Reg pulled back his sleeve and looked at his watch. ‘We...
Hanging onto the side of the mattress to prevent it floating away with one hand and indicating for him to unzip his sleeping bag and climb out of it with the other, wasn’t working. Needless to say, like Blowhard, I was doing a fair bit of yelling. ‘Are you hurt, Mr Blowhard?’ I shouted into his e...