Cassandra had her eyeballs removed postmortem and the eyeballs placed in her open palm. She was found dead by her father in her apartment. The father suffers a heart attack and still in a coma in the hospital. Maura couldn't find the victim's cause of death. The next victim, Timothy,…
Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis were just ordinary suburban children, living comfortably in a modern villa with their lovely parents. They always had everything they needed, and their parents always take care of them well. Then, one night, two men came to their house. After a heated conversation with their father…
One-Sentence Summary: An identity thief is targeting the sole survivor of a safari trip who assumed the tour guide is the real killer. A group of seven tourists with two tour guides went to a safari trip in Botswana. The beginning of the story gives a brief description of each…
Writer: Midred Wirt (1931). Revised By: Lynn Ealer (1961). One-Sentence Summary: A bottle of perfume which reluctantly being sold to Bess leads to the adventure of capturing a counterfeit syndicate. When waiting for the train to return to River Heights, Nancy is contemplating their encounter with the mysterious woman in…
Writer: Midred Wirt (1931). Revised By: Grace Grote (1965). Nancy is going to spend her vacation at the Shadow Ranch with her cousins, George and Bess. When she reaches the airport, they tell her that their aunt and uncle, Edward and Elizabeth Rawley thinks that it's not safe for them…
One-Sentence Summary: Three specific children being targeted by a killer for an unknown reason and murders are following them wherever they go. Thirteen-year-old Claire Ward should have died on the night when she was in the car with her adoptive parents. They had an accident. Claire rescued by a woman…
One-Sentence Summary: Ishmael joins the adventure of hunting whales but almost lost his own life due to Captain Ahab's obsession of hunting the white whale (Moby Dick) which he had lost his leg to it. "Call me Ishmael." The narrator introduces himself as Ishmael. He recalls his life…
Maura meets an attractive man at the Boston Museum event. The gold name tag on his suit indicates that he is a wealthy man who had donated a lot of money to the museum. After a short and pleasant exchange of conversation, Maura feels tipsy after drinking the champagne. He…
One-Sentence Summary: A martial arts teacher seeking for the truth of her husband's death for nineteen years, and she believes their best friend is not the killer. A severed hand is found on Beach Street at Boston's Chinatown by a kid from the Chinatown Ghost tour. On the rooftop of…
A short story of Jane and Maura investigating a corpse found beside the coffin. The body is identified as a seventeen-year-old girl named Kimberly Rayner. On the satin pillow inside the coffin, they found half a dozen black strands of hair. At the same time, an eighteen-year-old boy named Henry…