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Some crimes are more interesting than others.
Some killers are more surprising than others.
Today's murderer appears to be a crab.
R.W. Wallace
R.W. Wallace writes in most genres, though she tends to end up in mystery more often than not. Dead bodies keep popping up all over the place whenever she sits down in front of her keyboard. The stories mostly take place in Norway or France; the country she was born in and the one that has been her home for two decades. Don't ask her why she writes in English - she won't have a sensible answer for you. Her Ghost Detective short story series appears in Pulphouse Magazine, starting in issue #9. You can find all her books, long and short, on rwwallace.com.
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Critters - R.W. Wallace
Critters
A Mystery Short Story
R.W. Wallace
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Contents
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About the Author
Also By R.W. Wallace
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One
At times, I’ve found myself…jealous, for lack of a better word…of my American counterparts. Those guys do the craziest crimes, making for the craziest headlines.
Like people stealing alligators from a zoo. Trying to rob a convenience store with a gun cut out of soap. Seriously, those guys manage anything.
Up until today, my oddest job was a drunk calling the police on himself for making too much noise one night.
Right now, I appear to be looking at a guy killed by a crab.
It’s not as grotesque as it sounds—or at least, it’s not grotesque in the way it sounds. The crab didn’t cut his throat or anything.
It cut his toe.
Which, I assume, somehow made the victim fall off his balcony on the third floor and fall to his death on the city’s busiest pedestrian street.
The crab’s claw is still on the guy’s big toe, but the rest of the animal has yet to be found. I’ve ordered one of my officers to look for it because it seems likely the crab was along for the fall but lost its claw on impact.
Yep, I gave that order.
I have seven officers on scene at the moment with more on