The Case of the Mad Scientist

Chapter 4: An Assignment

The pretty young woman had just pulled her Miata into her parking space at the Crenshaw Arms apartment complex. Humming a happy tune to herself, she picked up a couple textbooks from the seat next to her and walked to the apartment she shared with a fellow secret agent, Mark Paulson. Mark had told her that secret agents did not drive little sports cars like that, they drove high-powered machines, like his Corvette. But she liked her little car. She said it was “cute”.

Finished with the class for that day, “Seventeen Ways to Kill a Man with a Pencil,” she ready to relax. Being a hot day, she immediately shed her clothing and enjoyed the air-conditioned air against her naked body. In the bedroom, she did a few stretching exercises and wondered what she could do while waiting for Mark to come home. Then she saw the set of handcuffs on the dresser and smiled.

from handcuffs. She opened the top drawer of the tall dresser and removed two more sets of handcuffs. Taking all three pairs of steel cuffs in her hands, she made sure that

the third pair in her joined hands. It was not too

way to immobilize a prisoner and, according to Mark, very difficult to get out of. She believed him, because the night he had locked her up in it, she had been totally unable to free herself. So, that warm summer afternoon,

click. Then she twisted around and arched her body, trying to see what she was doing behind her. Seeing some of the

still, panting from the exertion and coming to the conclusion that she was not going to be able to get those damned things off. Might as