"You hold my hand and everything is ok," she muttered to her husband as his face turned an alarming shade of blue. He gasped for air, but the drug she'd added to his slice of pie seemed to have induced a very severe asthma attack. It was really a shame that he couldn't find his epi-pen or inhaler this evening and that the phone seemed to be out ( Read more... )

At another party of that certain type, a wealthy dowager was parading about between rooms, requiring that every man between puberty and senility heap flattery upon her esteemed figure ( Read more... )

"I really must interrupt," the young man interrupted, "But unless I'm terribly mistaken, that poodle has just run off with your handbag." He pointed at the tail end of a blue-gray dog that trotted around the corner and out into the gardens ( Read more... )