The Case of the Unseen Lady / Chapter 1: A Very Unique Case
It was a night like any other night, my office in disarray, lit by the one small bulb overhead, the sounds of Los Angeles drifting through the window with the last glow of sunset like a warm wave on a...
View ArticleThe Case of the Unseen Lady / Chapter 2: Just the Facts
I was sitting in my office with my new client. Once she had put her glove back on – it had been strangely distracting – I got out my notebook and started to get her story. Her name was Natalie Taylor...
View ArticleThe Case of the Unseen Lady / Chapter 3: An Unlikely Colleague
I stayed in the office a while making notes on how I might approach this unprecedented mystery. I had all the elements of a typical case but with a very exceptional twist. But eventually my head was...
View ArticleThe Case of the Unseen Lady / Chapter 4: The Scene of the Incident
I knocked on the door and a short, dark-haired woman with black horn-rim glasses opened the door. “Miss Hindemith?” I asked, “I’m Jonathan Drake, a private investigator.” From a back room I heard what...
View ArticleThe Case of the Unseen Lady / Chapter 5: The Diagnosis – a Clear Case of...
“Something has been added to Miss Taylor’s body.” Doctor Morand and I were in his office that evening after all of his patients and most of his staff had left. He was doing his best to explain things...
View ArticleThe Case of the Unseen Lady / Chapter 6: Glamorous Motives and Fashionable...
The next day I caught a bus to the fashion agency where my client was employed. Called Glamorous Images, it was an upscale place in a decent part of town. I learned that many of the models, including...
View ArticleThe Case of the Unseen Lady / Chapter 7: Leather and Steel
After nearly a week of trying to meet with Bradley Ambridge, I finally arranged to talk to him at his father’s private ranch. I had to barrow Jake’s automobile to get out there – it was some distance...
View ArticleThe Case of the Unseen Lady / Chapter 8: An Unseen Visitor
I spent the next day working on my other open case. I had been so involved in Natalie Taylor’s case that I had let the first one slide. This case involved a potential insurance fraud. A lumberyard had...
View ArticleThe Case of the Unseen Lady / Chapter 9: Face to Face
I recognized the shape of Natalie’s face from her photograph but I immediately saw that something was wrong about it. Her skin was extremely pale and chalky except for her bright red lips. I further...
View ArticleThe Case of the Unseen Lady / Chapter 10: A New Relationship
I didn’t have time to deal with Natalie’s sudden claim to employment so I met with the new client; a big lady with a fox stole. It turned out to be a typical case involving an unfaithful husband....
View ArticleWitness Protection Program
These are story ideas, of course, not suggestions for revamping the real thing… 1 – This one involves a woman who’s dating a businessman who has been “encouraged” to launder money for the mob. After an...
View ArticleSaskia
This story suggestion was posted to the now defunct InsideTheWeb.com years ago; I posted it here just to offer the idea to anyone who might want to use it or be inspired by it. Saskia is seen entering...
View ArticleThe Case of the Unseen Lady / Chapter 1: A Very Unique Case
After a pause she quietly started to pull at the fingers of her open glove. I watched with a deep fascination, like a teen at his first strip club, as the top of the glove separated from the sleeve...
View ArticleThe Case of the Unseen Lady / Chapter 2: Just the Facts
I stole a fleeting glance at her clearly attractive legs. Attractively clear legs, I thought.
View ArticleThe Case of the Unseen Lady / Chapter 3: An Unlikely Colleague
He smiled in my direction and said, “New client.â€� It wasn’t a question. “A proper lady in high heels. Rosy perfume, too.â€� I smiled back – Vince can tell when a person is...
View ArticleThe Case of the Unseen Lady / Chapter 4: The Scene of the Incident
She then turned to face me and I almost startled. The white veil she was presently wearing was not nearly as thick as the black one I had first seen her in. And with the light coming through the window...
View ArticleThe Case of the Unseen Lady / Chapter 5: The Diagnosis – a Clear Case of...
As I walked back to my office I thought about an angle that can never be ignored. In every case I have to consider the possibility that a client is not what they pretend to be. Although I had a good...
View ArticleThe Case of the Unseen Lady / Chapter 6: Glamorous Motives and Fashionable...
“Well just last Monday she said that Natalie ought to ‘have her face erased’. But I’m sure she didn’t mean it like in the movies, being ‘rubbed out’ and all that. She...
View ArticleThe Case of the Unseen Lady / Chapter 7: Leather and Steel
As she spoke she slowly pulled at the fingers of her glove then stripped it off. At that moment I thought of Natalie. “I’m actually here to ask him some questions about I case I’ve taken...
View ArticleThe Case of the Unseen Lady / Chapter 8: An Unseen Visitor
I was about two steps away from the door I heard someone step back away from me. In a flash, I lunged. I was hopping to grab the person but I only managed to slap some bare skin. The figure pushed me...
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