The Curious Case of S.A.T.

A sk any private eye and they'll tell you - "There's no feeling like plunking another file in the "solved" tray, especially when that case was as stressful as my last one."

A couple months back, a fellow came in asking me to check out an outfit called Smithton Amalgamated Trading. The pay was good, but the job was hard. It was a case with more dead ends than a corpse's hairdo. I got my client what he needed, and he was more than a little surprised when I gave it to him.

"You - you made it out," he said. "The last two didn't."

"Investigation is a thinking girl's game," I said. "Read that sign o...