Creative Writing - The Case: An Original Mystery

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body,
and a navy blue hood. The thing took about three minutes to start and another
five to warm up, and that was in the summer.
Ten minutes later he showed up at my desk. I could still smell her
perfume on him. He looked terrible, like usual, man he was such a good guy, but
he didn't have a lucky bone in his body.
“So what's up now Steve? . . . another vending machine robbery . . .
more scuff marks?” Pat looked like a detective, you know what I mean, the way
the detectives looked in those old movies. He had a bad suit on, with a tie
loosened and hanging down and his shirt opened up, and he usually was sleeping
at his desk with the light dimmed and his feet up. The hat he had on looked
like it had really been worn by a detective out of an old movie, it was all
dirty and had a fold like somebody sat on it.
“No not this time Pat . . . Its a little worse . . . there's been a
murder.”
Pat froze, then as calm as can be he sat down and said “Give me the who,
what, when, and ...

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we got here we found that the main
switch was turned off. Jim's office has both of those controls and those were
the controls that were used. We also found out that when the fire alarm goes
off it over loads the video system, the cameras fold into the fire proof boxes
in the wall.”
“I'd like to take a closer look, hey I wonder how much that cost?”
When ever I told him something he always had this annoying way of
needing to check just in case I in fact screwed up, but he never found anything
wrong with what I did. After about ten minutes Pat came out and said to me “
We're gonna need to get Chank's room finger printed and Jim's office printed
too . . . and see if there is any tape ...

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