High-Fives, Gunfire, and Humbug: A Harvest of Adventure and Misadventure

Tattoos of an old murder scene. A high-tech peeping Tom. Narcotics disguised in a children’s book. Eye-for-an-eye in Tehran. Assault with a digital thermometer. Knitting class in a male penitentiary. These topics and others are distilled from recent news and presented here at random without subheadings or commentary. What the items convey is for the reader to judge. Misfortune, triumph, discovery, hocus-pocus together with violence, conspiracy, and fraud. New versions of old mischief, read ...