The Rome Project - Part 1

Chief Inspector Haddock in:

Missing Dinosaure

My name’s Chief Inspector Robert Cliff Haddock, I work at the top of a very tall building in down state New York. My office is on the very top floor. From there, I can watch over what seems to be the whole of the city. (No wonder they call me the greatest cop America has ever seen).

Usually, I solve crimes like stolen rings and missing handbags. But none of them compare to what happened this week.     

It all started when my personal assistant,  Jennifer Goldhorn came into my office.

“Bob! Dad just phoned. One of the dinosaur skeletons at the museum has been stolen, all he can find is a few bones.” She said. Jennifer’s dad was the curator of the natural history museum in upper west New York.

“Oh my god! We betta go down there as fast as we can before the thief comes back!” I said.

“Good idea.” Said Jennifer.

When we arrived at the natural history museum, Mr Goldhorn was waiting for us. He looked in such a state.

“The museum has never been robbed before, I don’t believe it.” He said in a petrified voice. This whole dinosaur thing was really getting a bit much for him. Jennifer went over to him.

“It’ll be all right, dad. Bob and I will solve this mystery once and for all.” She said.

While Jennifer was talking to her dad, I thought I’d look for some clues. It took quite a while to actually stumble across one, but when I did, my adrenaline went mad with excitement.

“Jennifer!” I shouted over to the corner where she and her father were talking.

“Yeah?” She said

“Come and see.” I said. Jennifer came over. “Look at this, a trail of little bones leading through that air vent.” I pointed over to a vent only a few centimetres from the ground.

“Lets investigate.” Said Jennifer.

“Good idea Jen.”

At the other end of the air vent, we emerged into a small dark room lit up by candles, there was a small desk in the corner of the room (it too was lit up by candles).

“Looks like who ever lives here doesn’t know anything about ELECTRICITY.” Said Jennifer.

“Quiet, Jennifer.” I said in a low voice.

“All right, all right.” She said. Just then we heard a strange noise from inside a cupboard a few metres from us.

“What the hell was that!” Said Jennifer anxiously.

“I don’t know, but whatever it is, I don’t think it wants us to get out of her alive.” I said.

Without a word, we shuffled back threw the vent and into back to the museum. We heard it coming after us, I looked round and saw something that made me jump out of my skin, it was the missing dinosaure

When we arrived, we heard footsteps coming up the corridor.

“I feel guilty about stealing the dinosaur model, should we give it back.” Said a timid voice.

“No you idiot!” Said a verry grough voice. “Do you know know what Mr F would do if we fail!”

“No, what.” Said the timid voice. Bob and Jennifer didn’t see what the grough voiced man was miming, but they heard the timid voiced man give a startled scream:

“Ah! No! I love my head! I don’t wanna lose it!”

“I’ve heard enough Jen. I’m going in.” I said

“I’m Chief Inspector Haddock from New York Police. I’m placing under arrest for stealing.” I said barging in and showing the two burglars my police badge.

The two men ran away as quickly as possible. I called Jennifer over and we both ran after them.

Once we had caught them, they both started explaining everything really fast.

“One at a time, morons. I can’t understand you.” Jennifer said. The timid voiced man started to talk: “Mr F told us to steal it for his evil plan ...”

“Hang on,” I said. “Who’s Mr F?”

Once again the timid man said: “Well his real name is Al––”

“Don’t tell ‘em you idiot!” Said the grough voiced man.

All of a sudden, the lights went out and then flicked back on again. But the two men wear nowhere to be seen.

Just then, there was a raor coming from behind the triseratops expodition ... to our suprise ... It was the dinosaur skeleton that had been nicked earlier on today. But it seemed to be alive.

“Ahhhhhhh!” We screamed. I got out my gun. but that wasn’t any use, it just bounced of his shiny white bones. So instead, we just ran. We must of ran across the whole museum with the dinosaur hot on our heels. We ran up to the top flaw where the observatory was and hid behind the telescope. The dinosaur came up shortly after, but something weird happend: it just faded away into a pile of bones.

“That was wierd.” Said Jennifer. “REALY wei–” She didn’t have time to finnish her sentance when a dark voice was transmitted threw the speakers.

“Chief Inspector Cod,” It said.

“It’s Haddock! What do you want? Who are you?” I demanded.

“My name, you no not, and will no never; So you can call me Mr F. But what is the point of presentations, your life is soon coming to an end. Chief Inspector Haddock, this is your black day! Moohahahaha! Moohahahaha!”

  The End