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Joe is on page 135 of 280

"All right, then," the professor said. "Here's your case: Who are you?"

Cynthia started to laugh, thinking Professor Gold was joking. Of course Cynthia knew who she was! She was a teen detective, an orphan, and the best student at Rapid Falls Junior College. She lived with her beloved housekeeper, Mrs. McShane, and had passionate almost-sex with her fiancé, Dick, every Friday night.

— May 19, 2025 02:07PM

Little Mysteries: Nine Miniature Puzzles to Confuse, Enthrall, and Delight

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Joe is on page 63 of 280

I used every trick I knew to find the episode of Bewitched. I thought maybe if I could watch it again, some memory of insight of how to help people would be shaken loose. But I never found it, and if the best detective in the world couldn’t find it, it probably never existed at all, and no further insight came.

The crime was solved, but I knew the case wasn’t closed.

— May 19, 2025 07:35AM

Joe is on page 51 of 280

The problem was money. I was just about thirty. I’d been a working detective since I was twelve. I didn’t need a lot of money, but I needed some, and I didn’t have any. Fees from the last few jobs had gone, variably, to a guy I was sleeping with who didn’t have a car and a girl I knew who was trying to keep her mother in a nursing home and a trip to Mexico City that had lasted too long and cocaine.

— May 19, 2025 06:24AM

Joe is on page 35 of 280

You are Claire DeWitt, the greatest teen detective in the world. You are standing on the corner of Rivington and Ludlow Streets on the Lower East Side of New York City. It has been a long night of nightclubs and bars and minor crimes; early in the evening, maybe, you were on a case, but you’ve forgotten that case now. The Case of the Silver … What was it exactly? Something about metals.

— May 17, 2025 08:31AM

Joe is on page 27 of 280

"The mystery," I said, "is the situation or fact or lack or feeling or patch of existence that no one wants to look at. And in that spot, where no one wanted to look, there was an opportunity for a crime."

"Oh," Helena said. "Oh."

She understood.

— May 11, 2025 07:38PM

Joe is on page 4 of 280

Alcoholism makes detecting hard! So Cynthia Silverton, the best teen detective in the world, was called to the case. Cynthia pulled up in her canary-yellow Cadillac, matching yellow-framed sunglasses on her face, in a charming white sundress and white kitten heels. In her yellow handbag was a Saturday night special, a deck of tarot cards, and a cyanide pill for worst-cast scenarios.

— May 11, 2025 07:09PM