The World of Robert MacLeod (4) Sir Oliver Plumb has disappeared. Has he been kidnapped? Has he been killed? Is it a political ploy. Robert MacLeod, a Special Investigator of the New England Bureau of Investigationis given the task of investigating the disappearance. What will he find?
A Story in the Spider and Fly Universe
As we go through life, we often overhear other people talking to each. This tale represents the transcript of short conversation, overheard after a university graduation ceremony held in a Cathedral in Bristol. What happened later is anyone guess.
Franklin wrote this humorous response to a call for scientific papers from the Royal Academy of Brussels while United States ambassador to France around 1781. He was also a respected scientist at the time. It was never sent (so as not to raise a stink) but was included in a letter to a friend.
A little girl, at a dinner out, attracts the attention of someone who is ultimately able to help her father get a job, and get her family back on their feet.
Meet Cyril Potts, a Briton working as a private eye in the USA. He gets some strange clients, which is all right because he is a strange investigator. We first encounter Cyril during one of his reveries, but he soon shows that when the need arises, he can lurch into action - in a way.