Pow the Panda, The Case of the Rainbow Dragon

By John H. Carroll

In the fantastically roaring year of 1925, business is good for a hard-working private eye in Chinatown. Pow the Panda sits in his office, waiting for trouble to come through the door. He’d rather have food delivered, but it never seemed to show up before trouble did.

When trouble does show up, a girl named Opal, a gorilla, a bear, a bed and bunch of bad puns join it. Pow is left with the Case of the Rainbow Dragon, but before he can solve it, he needs to find out who the Rainbow Dragon is.

The tenth story in the Odd Stories for Children series is a brisk dash through foggy streets where an endless supply of jokes trip up the journey.

Caution, this story has puns. It may also contain nuts.

• Language: English
• Publisher: John H. Carroll
• Release date: Nov 24, 2013
• ISBN: 9781310604669

John H. Carroll

John H. Carroll was the youngest of seven children and was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1970 where he was kept in a dresser drawer with the clean socks. Luckily, he wasn’t kept with the dirty socks or else he might have grown up to become slightly warped.As a child, John spent most of his time wandering through the Mojave Desert in an attempt to avoid people. He would stare at the sky, imagining what it would be like to explore different worlds. One of his favorite memories is watching his dad build the fuselage of Evel Kneivel’s skycycle in their garage. One of his least favorite moments was watching that skycycle fall into the Snake River. (Not his dad’s fault and he has documentation to prove it, so nyah)As a teenager, John spent most of his time driving wherever he could in an attempt to avoid people. He would stare at the road, imagining what it would be like to explore different worlds. He was the captain of the chess team, lettered in golf and band while in high school, and wasn’t beaten up anywhere near as much as one might imagine.As an adult, John spends most of his time staring at a computer screen in an attempt to avoid people. He stares at the monitor for hours, imagining what it would be like to explore different worlds. Occasionally, he looks around to see what’s happening on planet Earth. Quite frankly, it frightens him. He’s just going to do his best to write as many books as he can before aliens disintegrate humanity for being so irritating.Emo bunny minions surround John at most times. He is their imaginary friend and they look to him for guidance. At one point, they took over the world. No one noticed because they left everything exactly as it was. They gave the world back after a week because it was depressing.The Ryallon Series is his most popular endeavor into the field of writing. His Stories for Demented Children have lightened the hearts of many strange children and adults. He writes in the evenings and weekends whenever possible.

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Pow the Panda and the Rainbow Dragon

Stories for Demented Children

John H. Carroll

Published by John H. Carroll at Smashwords

Copyright 2013 John H. Carroll

Cover Copyright 2013 John H. Carroll

Cover illustration by Rachael Schiller

I dedicate this story to my fabulous son Joseph. The world is a better place with you in it and my life is richer for having you as a son.

Table of Contents

Beginning

Midpoint

About the Author

Beginning

In the roaring year of 1925, business was good for a hard-working private eye in Chinatown. Pow the Panda had just solved the case of the missing bills in which a silly goose had been stealing duck beaks and using them for fowl play.

Pow played a sad song on his tenor saxophone as he sat with his feet up on the corner of his cluttered desk. A shabby bowler hat hung low over thoughtful eyes. Outside the lone window, a