We get along fine. In return for food and shelter, they give me unconditional indifference.
Then one morning, while shredding newspapers for the rodent cages, he spotted a headline that would change his destiny: CONGRESS MULLS $8 BILLION PLAN FOR EVERGLADES RESTORATION.
The dog proved to be as dumb and stubborn as a mud fence, so Stranahan had named him Strom.
The detective had moved to Fort Lauderdale from St. Paul because his wife had inexplicably yearned to experience humidity.
Thank God they didn't know about it, all those people who feared and needed and sucked up to Palmer Stoat, big-time lobbyist. All those important men and women clogging up his voice mail in Tallahasse...
Sometimes you're going to be faced with situations where the line isn't clear between what's right and what's wrong.Your heart will tell you to do one thing and your brain will tell you to do somethin...
Skip Wiley was thirty-seven years old but he had the eyes of an old Gypsy.
Since the medical board was made up mostly of other doctors, Rudy Graveline had fully expected exoneration--physicians stick together like shit on a shoe.
She said, 'you think I'm a whore?''Don't be ridiculous.'Erin stepped back from the water. 'But you wouldn't want your daughter doing what I do.''My daughter,' said Garcia, 'is not leaving the house un...
One spring evening in 1896, a prominent Pennsylvanian named Hamilton Disston blew his brains out in a bathtub. He had become gravely depressed after depleting his inheritance on a grandiose campaign t...
Nobody with a living brain cell goes into the newspaper business for the money. They're in it because digging up the truth is interesting and consequential work, and for sheer entertainment it beats t...
My father used to say that you live most of your life inside your own head, so make sure it's a good space.
Martin Trebeaux had purchased a fleet of marine barges using the proceeds from a poshly falsified BP oil-spill claim.
Lower your sights, boy,' he said to Joe Winder. 'I agree, justice is probably out of the question. But we can damn sure ruin their day.
Like everything else at the Amazing Kingdom, the Vole Project had begun as a scheme to compete with Walt Disney World. Years earlier, Disney had tried to save the dusky seaside sparrow, a small marsh...
I took all your columns from the last four months, Mulcahy said, and I gave them to Dr. Courtney, the psychiatrist. Jesus! He’s a wacko, Cab. The guy has a thing for animals. I’ve heard this from sev...
Florida needs a special prison for tourists. Not all tourists—just the ones who trash the place, rob, shoplift, vandalize, drive drunk, assault the cops, puke in the alleys, pee in the medians, and so...
Eventually she came to believe that her condition was one that couldn't be treated medically; she was doomed to demand more decency and consideration from her fellow humans than they demanded of thems...
Ellis dutifully opens the top half of the bisected lid... and there's Jimmy Stoma. All things considered, he looks pretty darn spiffy. Better, in fact, than he did on some of his album covers. He's so...
Coroners made Al Garcia jumpy; they always got so cheery when somebody came up with a fresh way to die.