The Ransom of Red Chief Themes

Sam and Bill have decided that a kidnapping is an excellent way to turn a quick profit, but they don't stop to take into account the challenges they will face with a child. The first sight of Johnn...

This is a story about goofy and incompetent criminals making a plan that is bound to fail due to their fundamental misunderstanding of the situation they are crafting for themselves. We return agai...

So many errors in life can be attributed to the human folly of assumption—our ability to postulate outcomes that have not occurred in situations we have not experienced. This remarkable ability i...

In a story about what happens after a kidnapping, one might expect at least some level of violence. The beautiful thing about our story is that the violence concerned is not at all what one might e...