Welcome to Happyland

By Henry L. Wellsprings

A wonderful tale full of mystery and humour

A magical, wonderful tale.
A rather peculiar police investigation.
A group of fascinating, charming and quite unique characters.
A town, Happyland, is shaken by a mystery that needs to be investigated to the end by an unusual detective and his newly arrived assistant.
Dare to enter this twighlight world and discover the secret that Happyland and its inhabitants are hiding.
This novella will make you laugh, think and, in the end, it will leave you feeling that reading this fascinating tale was really worth your while.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BadPress
• Release date: Jul 16, 2017
• ISBN: 9781507115015

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Welcome to

Happyland

Henry L. Wellsprings

© Henry L. Wellsprings, 2015

All rights reserved

The arrival

The city sheriff was there waiting for me. He was lying on a stretcher, and was being pushed from one place to the next by a young man with a spotty face.

When did you arrive? he asked brusquely.

Right now, I replied, pointing at the bag I was carrying on my back.

The police station was full of clouds that were gathering softly on the ceiling.

All right. I need you to start work right away, there's no time to lose. We've had a lot of delays. People are beginning to get nervous.

The sheriff looked at me from the stretcher, waving his arms around, while the young fellow deftly pushed it around the room. It took me a while to discover that there was nothing wrong with the man: one day, he had simply decided he would spend all his time lying down. And since, obviously, he needed to keep on working, he'd found a stretcher with well-greased wheels and a helper who'd push it for a pittance. People had got used to it, and he'd lost count of the years he'd spent like that.

Very well... what should I do? I asked, anxiously. I was itching to get to do something.

Start by analysing all those clouds. Once you're done, I want you to prepare a report with your conclusions. Next week you'll meet Sherlock, the detective you've been assigned to. He'll be your boss.

And this is how I landed in Happyland. At the time I couldn't remember how I'd got to that peculiar place. All I could recall was that I had run away from a country whose name I'd rather not remember, which had sunk into a hell of a crisis and where finding a decent way of making