Duck Noir

The Curious Case of the Cayuga

Behind every pickle lies a peck of trouble.

Caught red-billed in a briny scandal — Quackule Poirot returns in The Curious Case of the Cayuga, inspired with a little help from ChatGPT.

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Quackule Poirot, the world-renowned feathered detective, adjusted his impeccably waxed bill-mustache and glared at the empty premium cornichon jar.

“The little grey cells, they tell me this was no accident,” he quacked to Captain Drake Hastings. “Hastings, mon canard, stop preening and look at the evidence!”

“I say, Poirot,” Hastings replied, “you aren’t suggesting fowl play? It would be a deucedly rum thing to snatch a fellow’s snack right under his beak!”

“It is a crime of passion. How you say, passion for vinegar and salt!”

Poirot waddled toward a Cayuga duck whose iridescent feathers couldn’t hide a tell-tale emerald smudge.

“You look green, Monsieur. Is it guilt, or the spear of evidence?”

With a flourish, Poirot pointed at a bumpy nub stuck to the thief’s web.

“Good heavens,” Hastings huffed. “You have been caught… in a pickle!”

“I say, what sweet dill of a case!”