The Big Mistake

My name is Detective Jack Brewster and in England I'm know like 1 of the best detectives ever. It was the 5 of November of 1927 when I had a visit in my office. A young girl enters to my room asking for help.

- Detective Brewster, I need your help.

- Sit, please. Now tell what's the trouble?

- Is my boyfriend, he is in jail for something he didn't.

- What's your name? young lady.

- Katrina.

- How is than your boyfriend is in jail?

- I don't know. You can ask him.

- Take me with him.

I follow her to the police station to speak with the blamed young man. Behind of the bars, a kid is full of sorrow.

- Hey, kid. Hi!

- Detective, thank god you are here!

-Tell me your name.

- Eric Stamersnatch.

- Ok, Eric. Tell me why you are here.

- Last night I walked back home from my visit to the museum when I saw a man running to me. When he was close, he had something in his hands and let it fall. When he got away, I took that thing than was a bag with jewels inside. In front of me, there were policemen appointing me with their guns and now I'm here.

- Could you see how the man looks like?

- I don't know. He was all in black.

- That's all for now.

What the boy told me. It was something with some relationship respect to a crime realized in a jewellery store. There was a broken window in the crime scene with policemen trying to find an answer.

- Official, I've got something.

- No, Detective. There's not any evidence.

- Just think. How could the thief break the crystal?

- Just... we though it could be a rock, but we didn't found something that here.

- In that case judging for the way of how the crystal is break, it could be a hammer. A big hammer.

- If that is true, you can't prove the innocence of the boy.

- There's another way. Tell me where the bag with the jewels is.

The police take me to a lab where they hope to find digital traces. I came to the lab and for luck; the cops let me speak with the investigators.

- You've got something?

- Detective, well..... I'm doing the possible to find any mark, but I think the thief used gloves.

- Wait, what if you find even be a piece of hair?

- I will do my best.

The only thing I could do was go to the cinema to clear my mind. The first movie was a horror classic. "Nosferatu". What I think about this film is that Count Orlok is very creepy and I hope this film exist for future generations. This was the first movie of "Dracula" in the cinema history. With only see that scenes full of suspense and mystery makes me think how could an ordinary man steal a jewellery store without leave a single clue?

I live in a world where any case is like a puzzle and the pieces are hard to find, but this puzzle of now have not some piece to complete the riddle. Everything is so confuse and I though a night ride could clear my mind, but nothing comes to help that boy in jail and my only choice was send myself back to the crime scene. With my lantern on searching in darkness, maybe this time I can find another way to save that boy. Even if I found nothing, I never get surrender easily. Maybe the young man could see his face and something tells me is somebody who I know.

Back to the jail in the next morning, I make my final question.

- Eric!

- You found him?

- No, but maybe I can do it this time.

- What do you need?

- Tell me, could you see his face?

- I don't know. It was so dark, but there's something I remember: A scar on his face through his right eye.

- God, I know who is!

The man who I was seeking was a fugitive from justice known as "The Cod Fish". A criminal who was chase since that day I recall. In a fishing zone the police found him taking hostages and the shoots started. He ran till tripping with a fishing web and felt to a harpoon cutting his face.

He could escape and nobody can catch him since that day. He always finds the way to escape and now he will fall for send an innocent boy behind the bars on his place. Driving in the darkness, there had to be someway of realise that boy and how I gonna get The Cod Fish without a single clue? My head is full of doubts. Then I feel some kind of light in my face. I see a little flash in front, so I keep out of the car to see what that shinning thing is. When I take it to look, what I see is a sapphire stone. I realize now than this shinning blue stone is 1 of the stolen jewels. At last I find a clue and it's my ticket to The Cod Fish's hiding place. Later of show it to the investigators, 1 of them gives me the answer to close this case:

- Good news. Using this stone, we can find the rest of the stolen jewels!

- Perfect! Show me the way.

They guide me while I was driving to what it was looking like an old factory.

- According with the computer, the stolen jewels are right here.

- Ok, call the troop, I'll come in.

I took my gun and went into the factory. Everything inside is so dark and if The Cod Fish is right here, I will be in troubles. I keep the eyes wide open in the darkness using a lantern. There's nothing on first place till I see a flash. I shoot the light in that place and what I see with a impacting expression are the stolen jewels in a bag.

- Yes, I found it finally!

- Of course you found it, Jack.

There was a gun behind my head and I know who this man is.

- The Cod Fish.

- Bingo! Always making yourself the smart guy.

- An innocent boy is in jail because of you.

- And what you gonna do? Send me with the authorities?

- I made a promise with that boy and I gonna carry it out.

From the nowhere, a white light appear through the window and a voice saying:

- Cod Fish! All the zone is rounded up. Come out with your hands up!

- Damn! You set me a trap.

- I think you are finish.

I turned back fast taking The Cod Fish weapon and pointing my gun right on his head.

- Is your choice. Surrender or die.

The police was waiting a lot till they see me hanging The Cod Fish hands.

- This is the real jewel thief! The boy on jail is innocent. Back to the police station, 1 of the guards opens the cage.

- Hey, young man. You can go now.

- What?

When he comes out, he sees me at his girlfriend's side. Eric comes running giving Katrina a big hug and a kiss too.

- The real thief is in prison now and the jewels are back where they belong.

- So that means....

- The case is close. I must go now.

- I don't know how pay you for help us.

- Is not necessary. My help is free like my spirit.

- I hope see you again.

- You know where to find me.

And that is how ends another case. I think than there is not another man who could resolve something like this. After all, the hard puzzles are my speciality.

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