The Many Adventures of Detective Catherina Mackeena

The mystery of the Pappaloochi murder.

when Detective Catherina's old school mate Sistina is accused of murdering her half sister Maria, it is a race against time to prove that Sistina is innocent and catch the real murder before they escape. Will Catherina be able to solve the mystery in time or will Sistina be arrested for a murder that she did not commit? Find out these answers and more in the Mystery of the Papapaloochi murder.

Twenty years had passed since both Mr. Pappaloochi and my father and mother had been killed. Maria and I, who never really got along while growing up, had gone our separate ways. She had married Mr. Pappaloochi's son Arthur and had become a co-owner their baseball stadium and team. However, a few years after the completion of the stadium Maria's husband met with an untimely death. Maria believed that he was killed by the mafia but there was never enough evidence to prove this claim.

It was around 3pm on a sunny afternoon. Maria was in her apartment planning next year's baseball season when she heard a knock on her door. She looked out the peephole and wasn't pleased with who she saw. Lilith Robbinso the loan shark she had borrowed money from was standing outside her door.  Barely opening the door Maria said in an irritated voice, "what do you want Lilith"? Now is not a good time."

Lilith pushed her way into the apartment and answers, "you know what I want.  The contract has expired it is time to pay your debt. I don't want to hear excuses you have had plenty of time to come up with the money you owe me."

"I had to spend a great deal of money on construction for the stadium this year."

"You finished building the stadium last year."

"The stadium was not up to code. The fire marshal and safety inspector would not let me open for the season until I met with this year's regulation. If I could just have an extension I know I can pay you what I owe after the beginning of next season."

"This is unbelievable. Every time your contract ends you come up with some excuse for needing more time. Last year you said you needed time to pay your husband's funeral expenses and that you would have the money at the end of this year's season. The year before that, you and your husband claimed to need time to find baseball players for your team."

"The year before that, you need time to finish building the stadium and now you have yet another excuse! There will be no extension to your contract this time. If you don't have the money then you will just have to come up with some other way of paying your debt. Since the stadium seems to be costing you such a fortune I should just take the building off your hands till you have paid your debt."

"Never! My husband and I worked too hard to build that stadium in memory of the times we spent at ball parks with our fathers. I will not just throw away that dedication to satisfy a stupid debt."

"You're father wasn't worth remembering. He was a looser just like your baseball team."

"How dare you talk about my father that way! He was a hardworking man who loved his family. He had lots of friends and was taken away from the world too early in life."

"I don't know what your mother told you, but your father was a thief."

"For your information Lilith my mother died when I was a toddler and my step mother died a few years ago. My Aunt, who raised me didn't talk about my father much and when she did, she never had anything nice to say. That's why we are at odds."

"Then let me enlighten you. At one time my father and your father were partners in an oil company. Your father had a gambling problem every week he would blow his money at different sporting events."

"When your father started collecting debts for his car, food and rent again my father took pity on him and set up a loan for him. When it came time to pay his loan he refused and threatened to "expose my father as crime boss".