Jake Randolph in "The Eternal Night" Pt. 4

We strolled around, played a few more games and then went to the pier. We watched the stars come out to play, then started back to my car. We were both pretty tired. I'd spent all day at the Existential Cafe trying to sort the inventory out with Mongo, my sole employee. Bottles of booze kept going missing from the stockroom, and I knew Mongo wasn't doing it. I was going to have to put some of my dormant detective skills to good use to find the miscreant.

I sometimes pondered how I went from private detective to cafe owner...