I was doing my best to turn down Scott McFarlane’s request, but it’s hard to say no to a blind dead man. I mean, what else could go wrong for the guy? Scott explained that he had been blinded by an accident with acid while working at a printing press in the early part of the twentieth century and...
Alison tends to be somewhat squeamish about such things—she’s only been seeing us for about a year—and until we knew the whole truth, there was no point in alarming her. Plus, given her current state, which was bordering on frantic, it seemed a bad idea to involve her. But I did concentrate my mi...
But it’s easy to blame the weather reporter on TV when you’re told it will be a lovely day and instead find yourself having to brave a raging monsoon, sans umbrella, from the parking lot to your office.So it wasn’t difficult for me to forgive the blizzard hysteria of last night when I woke up thi...
said Lieutenant Anita McElone. “How do I report that the chief suspects are ghosts?” True to her word, McElone had sent an ambulance, which had arrived within minutes of our discovering Bill Mastrovy’s body in my hallway. In that time, A.J. had seen the stab wound and fall...
I told Paul. Instead of his usual routine of pacing and stroking his goatee, Paul had his hand up with the palm extended and was holding it near the ceiling fan in my new movie room. I had given up on the whole investigating thing for the rest of the day and was stripping ...