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From the case files of Det. Nicholas "Little Nick" McCleary
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Detective "Little Nick" McCleary was watching a baseball game when the older gentleman sitting next to him fell over, dead. A knife was sticking out of his back.
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"I didn’t mean to kill him!" screamed a distraught woman sitting behind the dead man.
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"Maybe you didn’t," Nick gamely replied. "But kill him you did!"
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HOW DID NICK KNOW?
It was the unambiguous implication of the woman’s statement.
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Sergeant Kratch asked Nick to come to 45 Crestview Avenue. At the scene, Nick saw the body of a well-dressed young lady hanging by a noose from a tree.
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"Why would a nice girl like that want to kill herself, Little Nick?" mused Kratch.
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"This is no suicide, Sergeant," Nick archly responded. "This is cold-blooded murder."
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WHY WAS NICK SO SURE IT WAS MURDER?
Nick was referring not to the young lady, but to Sergeant Kratch whom he was in the middle of murdering. Do not call Detective McCleary "Little Nick" under any circumstances.
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Nick and his girlfriend, Anna Mopp, went to the skating rink. At the rental line, Anna turned to Nick and said, "Three dollars an hour! Prices for skates have certainly risen since last year."
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"Indeed they have, Anna," came Nick’s sly rejoinder. "Indeed they have."
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WHAT DID NICK MEAN?
"I agree absolutely. I concur wholeheartedly."
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Nick went to the coroner’s office and watched Dr. Morgun perform an autopsy on a young boy, recently deceased.
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"A strangulation," said Dr. Morgun.
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"A cold-blooded murder," said Nick.
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WHAT TIPPED NICK OFF?
The young boy was Sergeant Kratch, whom Nick had murdered in a previous "Ten-Second Mystery" and therefore recognized immediately when he saw him there.
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Nick was having dinner with his girlfriend, Anna Mopp, and her daughter Mona.
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"Great spaghetti, Mom!" said Mona.
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"This is no spaghetti, Mona," Nick archly riposted. "This is cold-blooded murder."
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TO WHAT WAS NICK REFERRING?
It had been a long, long day.
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