Short story: The case of the missing contact lens...

It was Oscar O’Neill’s 30th wedding anniversary. Oscar was a hopeless romantic: his attempts to be romantic were hopeless. That was one reason why it was also the 29th anniversary of the day his wife left him.

Oscar was therefore in a rather melancholy mood when DI Stott rang to tell him that a contact lens had been found at a crime scene and he wanted Oscar to have a look at it.

Later that afternoon, Stott brought an evidence bag containing a small pot. Oscar opened the pot to reveal a rigid lens in some solution. Stott explained that a suspect appeared to have lost the lens during a scuffle with a jeweller while trying to steal a diamond necklace from a window display. Forensics had failed to find enough DNA on the lens to be helpful.