This detective story goes back over two thousand years. (Part of the long version of Daniel in the Catholic and Orthodox versions of the book in the Bible, but I think there’s a Babylonian or Persian version that goes back further.) You have two lying witnesses. You question them separately, and they can’t agree on any details. “Where were the two of you on August 14th?” “Uh, playing poker with the guys.” “At a bar planning to rob a gas station.”
It is either very bad writing or he has a plan. Sadly, I’m going with bad writing being what happened. She should have a video tape going if she meets clients in her office, and take the tape to the police. Tracy to Shaky, “Put up or shut up on your claim for an alibi. You’re charged with attempted extortion either way.”
Actually two of her relatives date guys with capes, both Lois and Margo. (At least Margo did on radio. Not in the pulps. I don’t remember the comic books by Street and Smith or the syndicated comic strip or the movie serials. The modern movie I’ve managed to repress from my memory.)
Leave the Christmas decorations up, it saves time next year. If anyone accuses you of being lazy you respond, “I want the joy of the Christmas season to last all year long!” and make them feel mean and petty.
“Any chance you’re the same anonymous caller who lured us to the Siam to get us killed in the first place? And how come you’re calling us instead of the police?”
Statue for a fountain, so the angel is holding a jug from which water will endlessly pour. But no one notices that neither the new ‘statue’ nor the mental case are not made of marble?
Kassie made no secret of her potassium deficiency, which means anyone could have stolen some of her medicine (or purchased it elsewhere) and used it to poison Clara. Kassie gets a good lawyer and the DA might not even think cause of death by itself is a compelling reason to go to trial.
This detective story goes back over two thousand years. (Part of the long version of Daniel in the Catholic and Orthodox versions of the book in the Bible, but I think there’s a Babylonian or Persian version that goes back further.) You have two lying witnesses. You question them separately, and they can’t agree on any details. “Where were the two of you on August 14th?” “Uh, playing poker with the guys.” “At a bar planning to rob a gas station.”