"Perhaps next time Herholz should wait until at least he thinks his work is good before inflicting it on innocent readers." Tom Knapp therambles.net The Collected Diary of the Black Widow and The Spaghetti Strand Murder first published by Alterna, Inc. in 2006 and 2008 respectively. In Diary of the Black Widow a young woman with a habit of seducing and killing men attracts the attention of an oblivious Detective and his helper. Will they solve the mystery behind these murders, or will the Black Widow strike again? In the Spaghetti Strand Murder Lord Algernon Sloughshire has been found dead The only clue to what caused the murder was a single strand of spaghetti found tied around his lordship's neck. Luckily there's only one person oblivious enough to "solve" this case, none other than the DETECTIVE INSPECTOR