Author: Howard Lachtman

Howard Lachtman

Seventh Inning Stretch

Memories of a Nostalgic Fan Inning One: The Proper Way To Catch a Fly In 1958, the New York Giants came west to adopt a

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Howard Lachtman

Where’s the Dog?

Reader advisory:  This story discusses a film plot without a plot spoiler.  Here at the Delta Detective Agency we have an abundance of mysteries on

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Howard Lachtman

A Valentine’s Day To-Do List

Editor’s note: Here, in poetic form, is the author’s advice to Valentine’s Day celebrants wondering how best to observe the holiday.   All you need do

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Howard Lachtman

What the Camera Saw

Fiction For Rich Turner, master photographer and intrepid explorer of the Delta. From the Files of the Delta Detective Agency  There was something odd about

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Howard Lachtman

Three Little Words

From the Files of the Delta Detective Agency For Cyndy Green, a miniature mystery to add to your mammoth collection.      If I was a

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Howard Lachtman

A Christmas Mystery

For Tiffany and Brandon, my kind of mystery fans.       Having solved the mystery of the venomous    India snake lurking in the family Christmas tree 

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Howard Lachtman

Sentry

My holiday-themed, bird-chirping doorbell,rung repeatedly by mischief-minded childrenwho run away before I can scold them,heralded an unexpected caller:  wannabe poet Wanda and the story of one

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Howard Lachtman

Handiwork

                                      I can’t imagine poetry            in this vast, flat land,            this bowl-shaped valley            whose rivers are harnessed            to feed

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