“Who do you think is guilty?”

“I haven’t a clue.”

“Me neither. I imagine it’s situations like this that drive detectives to drink.”

“Shall we give it a try?”

The two penniless PIs pooled their pocket change and shared a cup of coffee so hot it nearly melted their straws.”

John H. Dromey has a short story in the forthcoming Candlesticks and Daggers: An Anthology of Mixed-Genre Mysteries edited by Kelly Ann Jacobson.