The Case Of The Swollen Body

It was daylight by the time Sam Snail clocked in at the office. Rhonda Grasshopper was already there, organizing some files from his last case. She was filling in for his regular secretary, Norma, who had stepped in something slippery on the floor earlier in the week and had broken her leg. It was the same day that his operative Rocky Slug had stopped by to fill him in on a subject he had been following.
As Sam studied Rhondas long gams from across the room he thought about the latest investigation that had fallen into his lap. How could anyone be so cruel as to rip all the appendages off a helpless creature and then leave them for dead on a cold wet trail? Armless, legless bodies and secretaries with broken legs……this job could be pretty slimy at times.
Little Billy had gotten word from his cousin that he would be getting a subpoena to testify about the body he and Latimer had discovered. He wasn’t worried about telling the story, but he didn’t think Latimer would feel the same way. And he got confirmation of that theory when he told Latimer about it later that day.
“I really can’t do that!” lamented Latimer. “Every time I think about it I begin to……..to……MMMMMPHH!!” With that he turned towards the wall of the nest and began to retch once again. ‘This is not good.’ thought Little Billy.
The medical examiner had never seen a body in this condition. The body was so swollen and wrinkled and the insides were all mushed together. It was in such terrible shape he couldn’t even determine what species of bug it was. And he may as well forget about trying to figure out this bugs identity. It will probably end up in an unmarked grave somewhere. So sad…
Such was life in the bug world……here one day and gone the next.
Little Bobby had found some other little tidbits to put out on the ground. “Let’s see what else those bugs like to eat.” He laid a jelly bean next to another raisin on the same spot he saw the bugs at yesterday.