This is a love story, this is a detective story, and this is a story of infidelity. It is the memoir of a young man in his late twenties, married with three children. He meets and falls deeply in love with a beautiful young woman. A five-year love affair begins. The novel chronicles the events leading up to and the intimate details of his relationship with the woman as well as events happening in his marriage. He is at this time a working private detective and brings his love in as his working partner. Between elements of this love story, you will find actual detective cases they worked on together. The novel is not fiction but rather a true story that the author kept secretly hidden for his entire life. Now retired and living alone, It is time to tell the truth.

The author, Kevin Sean Kelly, is a published short story writer. His stories have been published in six magazines and in five languages. It Takes One To Catch One, is a memoir of his life between the years 1960 and 1965. He was, during those years, a working private detective. Although married, he falls in love with his twenty-year-old female partner. This love affair is the centerpiece of this novel. It chronicles, the events leading up to his meeting with "Nina", and the intimate details of a wonderful love story. He includes between the elements of the love story, actual detective cases he and Nina worked on as partners.

It was a Saturday, late in the fall that I first met Nina. We were sitting in our booth in the private room, with another couple that Tom and Astra worked with. I was sitting at the end of the booth in a chair, when a young lady came in and walked over to our booth. She stood to my right; Tom was sitting to my left. I paid no attention to her since people coming in and greeting Tom was a very common occurrence. A large pizza had just been placed in the center of the table. I, as well as the others, were reaching for the piece they wanted. Tom squeezed my arm and I looked at him. He looked up at the girl and back at me and said, "Kevin, this is Nina, she came here to meet you". I turned to see who he was talking about and could not believe what I was looking at. The pizza dropped from my hand back on to the tray. Standing and looking down at me was the most beautiful young girl I had ever seen in my life. She looked to be about twenty years old, a rather tall girl, about five foot eight, long blond hair and light green eyes. What struck me at first was how her eyebrows outlined and enhanced her eyes. They were as blond as her hair, and I knew at once I was looking at a truly blond haired woman. When she smiled, her eyes smiled with her. There was not a drop of makeup on her face, not even lipstick. She needed none, her face glowed with youth, beauty and health. She was dressed in blue jeans, a white turtle neck sweater and white sneakers. The turtle neck sweater fell loosely over her body, and looking up as I was, I could see that she was very well endowed. Her hair was tied back into a pony tail, and she wore no jewelry of any kind. She was chatting with Tom as I gazed up at her, and I caught the whiff of a most enchanting light perfume. It was not a scent I had ever encountered before, not a fragrance but a smell that one would have as they stepped out of the shower. Her body looked strong and athletic, not the type you see in a model. It is hard to explain what set her apart from all the very pretty girls I had seen to this time in my life. I can tell you though, that if any man was walking down the street and she passed in a crowd, she would be noticed and admired.

If there was ever a case of love at first sight I was a text book case of it. My heart was pounding and I hardly could breath, I was spellbound. I never in my life had a feeling like this, even when I met my wife nor in all the years I had been married to her. I just sat there staring up at her. Tom introduced her to me and she leaned down and kissed me on the cheek and I guess my face flushed because everyone at the table giggled. I remember to this day, this moment in my life, even to the song that was playing on the juke box at that very moment "I Love How You Love Me."

I must have been embarrassed because, I suddenly realized that I should have stood when Tom introduced her to me but was so enchanted it never entered my mind. I jumped up overturning my chair, I set it up and offered it to her but she refused , telling me to sit down and calm down. She pulled up a chair from a nearby booth and sat beside me. The fact that she told me to calm down did not register on me till weeks later. She must have known that very moment that she was looking at a man that was in love with her.