This was the inspiration for "The Studdley Luckler Chonicles - Tales of the World's Greatest Defective. "It was dark. So dark you couldn't see your hand in front of your face."
A hilarious adventure story of a guy who stumbles into becoming a private detective and solving gunrunning, government overthrowing, Chinese opium dealer crimes. Sarcasm and irony abound.
The second novel- The Search for Big Ben involves locating a British spy for MI-6 who has run off to deep, dark Africa to locate a lost diamond mine and discovers a secret German base where "anti-gravitational flying devices" are being developed (diesel powered chunks of flying iron that burn fuel and smoke like trains)
mossgard007 t1_j8ne56j wrote
Reply to TIL that the phrase "It was a dark and stormy night" was the opening line to an actual novel published in 1830, but runs on for another 51 words: "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which..." by dylancatlow
This was the inspiration for "The Studdley Luckler Chonicles - Tales of the World's Greatest Defective. "It was dark. So dark you couldn't see your hand in front of your face."
A hilarious adventure story of a guy who stumbles into becoming a private detective and solving gunrunning, government overthrowing, Chinese opium dealer crimes. Sarcasm and irony abound.
The second novel- The Search for Big Ben involves locating a British spy for MI-6 who has run off to deep, dark Africa to locate a lost diamond mine and discovers a secret German base where "anti-gravitational flying devices" are being developed (diesel powered chunks of flying iron that burn fuel and smoke like trains)