The Cigar Box

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The Cigar Box – A Charles Splints Case By Dan Leicht

He doesn’t like to work with anyone else, but the high volume of cases he’s been getting recently has left him with no choice. Charles “The Solver” Splints needs a secretary, or as I like to refer to myself as, a “sidekick”. He doesn’t let me go on too many of the cases with him, though I have been on a few. He does however tell me all about them when he gets back, after a few hours of pestering him to tell me/give me my paycheck. My name is Jimmy Smalls, and I work with the greatest detective in all of Brooksend.

The case he told me about last night had to do with an elderly couple and a cigar box. Now, the box wasn’t such a big deal, nor was there any cigars in it, but what was important was what the old man had placed into the box instead, his and his wife’s wedding rings. Over the years the rings became burdens on their fingers, so a safe place the two could agree upon became the answer. Tough luck a crook thought it something worth grabbing when they were robbed Monday night. I got the call for Splints to go check the place out Tuesday morning. Read more ›