Detective Folly Research Paper

There was a scent in the air tonight that entailed Detective Folly that something, unlike any other normal night in 1927 New York, was about to happen. However, the seasoned detective had bigger fish to fry from just a smell. There had been, many years ago, a murder that took place on Folly’s first day on the job. The once bright and lively detective had been haunted by this murder ever since, for it had been his mother who was taken from this Earth on that cold, fateful night. Folly had finally, after many years of rigorous effort, tracked down the culprit to the murder being longtime mob boss, Smith Johnson. A call had came into the station that Johnson and his men had been spotted in an abandoned warehouse complex on the industrial side of the city. Folly, who seemed doubtful of this tip that seemed to be just like all the other false tips he had received over the years, suddenly changed his mood when pulled his Model A into the warehouse complex. It was as if Folly could sense that Johnson was actually there, and of the major gunfight that was about to commence between The Johnson Mob, Detective Folly, and the New York Police Dept. …show more content…
From Folly’s perspective, everything seemed quiet...too quiet. As he passed building after building, the warehouse’s bathroom seemed, for some reason, to catch his eye. He entered the dilapidated, cramped bathroom to find the one item that put all suspicions of the credibility of this lead out of his head. There, sitting in the molded sink, was a half-smoked cigarette with the word “Johnson” burned into the side of it. He picked up the cigarette and felt the charred remnants. “This still feels warm,” Folly thought, “He was here not but an hour ago!” Drawing his gun out of the back of his weathered trenchcoat, he continued his search of the warehouse complex for the nearby mob