2.  As usual, I was up at 6.30 am to savor my
morning coffee made by my husband and scan
the letters…

3.  I hadn’t received such requests for ages… But that morning I was
blown off! 6 requests from strangers who wanted me to help them
solve different crimes that had taken place in shops.. All handwritten
and in traditional envelopes… weird.. At this day and age… Why
didn’t they send me a FB friend request? ) They could have twitted
me at least! That’d become popular in no time above all else!

4.  All the letters were interesting, however, one of
them caught my eye and intrigued me most of
all… and since my time was very limited, I
decided to help that lady…

5.  This is what she wrote:

9.  In fact the interior of the store was quite
impressive… peculiar smell of shrimps, butter
and crème (I concurred at once that there was
going to be a stand-up party…Elementary, my
dear Watson! ) The laughter of the children I
overheard pointed to the fact that there was a
clown on site, while the agitated voices of
grown-ups and the camera flash sound
indicated that people were having fun and
wanted to have photos in memory of the
evening.

10.  At last my “stranger” took out her envelope
from the pile and screamed! She had won! She
knew she would when she was writing to me!
But how? According to the theory of
probability … the chances were very low…

11.  At that very moment the lights went out!
Screams and cries everywhere… in a couple of
minutes we were back to normal, the halls
were brightly lit again and people went on
laughing and consuming the goodies on the
tables… .

12. I rushed to the dressing
rooms, as this is where
usually things happen
… People are strangled,
stabbed… the door was
wide open and when I
looked at it from the
inside I noticed
crevices… someone was
evidently desperate to
open the door and get
out…

13.  I looked for her everywhere… the halls looked empty.. Everyone was
gone… in 5 minutes??? And the clothes were so neatly arranged on the
racks… And suddenly, when I was passing by a recurrent stand,
something caught my eye and attention…

15.  The image of the letter ran across my mind…
the yellow letters! I hadn’t paid attention to
them! And here they were, scattered in the
letter, but side by side on the board in this hall!
Behind the mannequin! St.George! Of course!
The money was here, I could feel that…

18.  to think about the incident and confess to
myself that I had been blind as a mole.
However, it is better to learn wisdom late
than never to learn it at all!
 The “stranger” as we found out later was the
aunt of a fellow whom I had sent to prison
for murder… She wanted to take her revenge
on me and trip me up…

19.  You want to know the moral of the story? Pay
attention to the tiniest details!!! And have a good
memory!
 That will save you lots of money, time and
frustration!
 Elementary, my dear Watson! 

20.  I would like to extend words of gratitude to
myself for being horribly busy during the week
and working 20 hours a day, hence leaving my
assignment for the last possible second and
then doing it in an hour, while listening to a
webinar I couldn’t miss…
 Way to go, Lilit the Holmes…  And you had
such great ideas you wanted to implement…
oh…