"Would you like to go meet the poodle, Studmuffin? Detective Palmer is picking me up so we can talk to Mrs. Salmon."

Finally, he turned around. "I'll go but only to protect you from a murder suspect. I will not give that poodle one second of my precious time."

"Fair enough."

"And Detective Palmer is starting to grow on me."

"Me too," I admitted.

"He's so shiny."

"Okay, what does that even mean?"

He held up one murder mitten and started ...