Detective Manatee stood back while this was

Detective Manatee stood back while this was occurring, so that he would not “get knocked over” when the dog was “spinning around trying to find” the source of

the corpse' aroma. The place was tidy, almost too tidy. Victorian style lamps with shades of pink, purple and plum accessories looked gaudy and cheap. He then opened a window to

escape. He donned a gaudy lampshade & slipped into an Ethipian cafe for an alibi. He was the only customer, but the disguise was working as planned when Ali, the owner, tried to sw

indle a lady in a burqa into buying the baroque cupid lamp with alibaster tush. When she tugged on his tassle Al improvised a little

dance to mimic the movement of the tassle. The lady laughed out loud & I imagined what her smile must look like under the heavy burqa. "I'll take 10!" she said, to my surprise.

I sequestered 10 belly dancers, & my burqa clad buyer marched off with them. "She must truly love her husband," I thought. Turns out she armed them all with daggers, & as the sheik

dined, she confronted him, demanding the rights to his fortune. He refused. The ten belly dancers set into him, and he bled out on the million-dollar fur carpets. Well, it's not

as if he didn't see it coming, as the belly dancers were carrying knuckle-dusters and wearing body armour. The man laughed as he died, remembering that he had written his wife out

Of his will ten years ago, while not telling her. His mistress and her cats were named his heirs instead. The cats were happy to play with the money and let the wind blow it away.