The Ambulance Made Two Trips

Detective Sergeant Fitzgerald found a package before his door that morning, along with the milk. He took it inside and opened it. It was a remarkably fine meerschaum pipe, such as the sergeant had longed irrationally to own for many years. There was no message with it, nor any card. He swore bitterly. By William Fitzgerald Jenkins, who used to write under the pseudonym Murray Leinster. American writer of science fiction and alternate history and the author of more that 1,500 short stories and ar