The famous lexical semanticist Professor Edgar Nettleston had been found dead, a gunshot wound to the head.

A game of Scrabble has serious consequences.

When Chuck Walaach enters the Elvis Look-Alike Competition, something has to give.

“It’s all going to be just fine,” she said. “We’re going home soon, I promise.”

Outwardly Seth didn’t react as he watched Mrs. Hatfield misplay the four spade contract, but inwardly he groaned. True, she made it, but most of the other pairs would make it with an overtrick.

An investigator is put on the case when a mad philologist steals a new weapon.

He steals with swift, simple hands in the yellow Roman sun. The crowds are bulging, swollen, and he bobs amongst them as silent as a jellyfish.

If I can just keep walking, I can burn off some of this nervous energy. I need to walk until I’m exhausted, until I can convince myself that this rapid, stuttering heartbeat of mine is the result of exercise.

Ed runs an errand for Mr. Rollo.