DISPATCH FROM THE CITY
Something's always happening in Noir City. Most people keep walking. Investigators notice. Make your choice. See what happens.
The Broken Heel
You return to your floor after being downstairs for about twenty minutes.
A woman’s high-heeled shoe is lying in the hallway.
Several feet farther down, you see the broken heel.
The carpet between them is disturbed.
A strip of wallpaper has been torn from the wall.
You stop.
None of this was here twenty minutes ago.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
You walk to the nearest door and knock.
“Hello? Is everything okay?”
Something moves inside the room.
You hear a brief scuffle.
Then a heavy thud.
Silence.
You wait.
Nothing.
You lean closer to the door.
The doorknob begins to turn.
You take the elevator down to the lobby.
The desk clerk looks up as you approach.
You tell him about the shoe. The torn wallpaper. The disturbed carpet.
“What room?” he asks.
“217.”
His expression doesn’t change.
“I’ll take care of it.”
He turns toward the office behind the desk.
Something on the floor catches your eye.
A woman’s high-heeled shoe.
Same color. Same style.
The match to the one upstairs.
The clerk turns back.
He sees where you’re looking.
Neither of you says anything.
He walks over and locks the front door.