Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for April 14, 2016
Transcript:
Enjoy this classic Tom the dancing bug Vintage 1995 The adventures of Sam Roland the detective who dies THE MYSTERY OF THE DEADLY LETTER OPENER After weeks of investigation, Roland calls together everyone who attended the dinner at which industrialist Bernard Platt was found stabbed to death by an Ivory Letter opener. Sam: Each of you knew Mr. Platt well...and had reason to want to see him dead! Harold K. Reevers -- Platts stamp collecting rival cheated him out of the "ottoman star" Dr. Otis Snotseed -- Platts childhood chum who secretly abhorred Platt for his company environmental crimes, Including the use of ivory... Juanita Atkins --Platt's erstwhile lover with whom he recently broke up with a "Dear Juanita Letter... and Nils Larson -- Platts longtime postman, were you surprised to find out you were a major beneficiary in Platt's will? But only one of you had the means and opportunity.... FOOSH The mystery of the deadly letter opener was very very close to being solved, But the fluke occurrence of spontaneous human combustion will forever keep a secret the brilliant solution deduced by Sam Roland, the detective who dies!!
Spontaneous combustion is a very strange, and rare, deus ex machina