Murder Mysteries

For 20 years, Benson's Big Beautiful Bunny Boutique has been the premier breeder of rabbits for springtime holidays. Owner Barney Benson built an operation that prides itself in the quality cottontails it provides both to local pet stores and to the public. Benson is reowned for the innovative techniques he uses that have revolutionized rabbit breeding.

Daily, admiring visitors to the boutique take guided tours, then select the perfect bouncing pets from his state-of-the-art rabbit hutch, complete with environmental controls and automated bunny feeder. but, all is not well because, yesterday, as Barney was opening for business, a huge letter "B" from the new sign hanging atop the hutch suddenly dislodged and fell on him, sticking Barney in the head and leaving the boutique leaderless.

What at first seemded like a tragic accident was so suspicious to the police that they soon declared the bunny breeder had met an untimely demise at the hands of a killer. someone had done away with the lord of leep by tattooing him with his own initial.

Cruise Director Sunny Sails had her own way for handling the passengers on the good ship Legendary Carnival. Her two decades of life on the caribbean had seen her promoted from busgirl to the person whom everyone depends upon to get things done. The past eight years had been spent making sure that passengers were happy and content as they enjoyed the amenities of a world-class cruise ship.

It was indeed strange, then, that her body was found early one warm morning tucked away near a lifeboat on deack 5. At first, everyone was certain it was a tragic accident- an unexpected slip on a wet deck, or an inadvertent misstep.

Yet, the more that was discovered about the death, the more apparent it became that sails met her demise in an untimely fashion. Who would have wanted to do in such a maritime fixture? After all, stories of Sunny's many adventures were recounted by cruise ship employees from Fort Lauerdale to Panama. Some of those tales, if true, would make an experienced sailor blush.

Her many encounters with the rich and famous aboard the Legendary Carnival would provide fascinating reading for someone who might wwant to lkearn the real ins and outs of a life about a luxury ocean liner.

Although the official investigation of the death would have to wait until the ship docked, a selected group of on-board sleuths could provide an early insight into what could have happened to turn a sunny event into a cloudy affair.