5 The Murders at Astaire Castle by Lauren Carr

Author:Lauren Carr [Carr, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Murder, Whodunit
Publisher: Acorn Book Services
Published: 2013-07-18T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Gnarly’s barking was loud enough to wake up the residents of Spencer Point. Used to his barking at squirrels, birds, and low-flying aircraft; everyone had grown to ignore the protective shepherd. Yet, the frantic tone this morning brought some curious residents to their front porches when Gnarly, with his leash dragging behind him, ran past on his way to Spencer Manor.

Shrugging into his bathrobe, Mac threw open the door when Gnarly slammed into it. Tying the belt to her bathrobe, Archie was right behind him.

Instead of running in, Gnarly whirled around and ran back out into the driveway. When he saw that Mac had only come down off the porch, he ran back and jumped up to tag him hard in the chest.

“David’s not with him,” Mac said to Archie. “Something happened to him and Chelsea.”

She had already run inside.

“Call Bogie!” Mac yelled as loud as he could while running after Gnarly.

He didn’t get far before David’s cruiser, its lights and sirens going, pulled up alongside to him. “Get in,” Archie called to him out the window.

That was when Mac realized he was in his bare feet and wearing only his bathrobe. There wasn’t enough time to change. He saw when he climbed into the passenger seat that Archie was also in her bathrobe and barefoot.

“You know it’s illegal to steal a police cruiser,” he told her while they tailed Gnarly down the point, across the cove, and along the lake shore.

“So arrest me.” She slammed on the brakes when they came upon the scene. “Oh, dear, God!”

Chelsea was on her knees bent over David. Her leash dragging behind her, Molly ran up to Mac when he got out of the cruiser. Whining, she pawed at him before leading the way back to her owner.

“He’s been shot!” Covered in blood, Chelsea had taken off her jacket, folded it up, and was holding it against David’s side. It was already soaked with blood. She held it against David’s stomach with one hand while holding her cell phone to her ear with the other. “The police and ambulance are on the way.”

Mac knelt on David’s other side and pressed his hand on top of hers to stop the bleeding. He didn’t want to lift the coat to look at the wound for fear of allowing more blood to seep out. Glancing back at the cruiser, Mac saw that Archie was already on David’s radio. He could hear the sirens announcing the arrival of cruisers from both directions and an ambulance from across the lake. They were growing louder by the second.

A black cruiser tore around the corner from up the road and screeched to a halt in front of them. Shouting orders into his radio, Bogie jumped out of the cruiser and ran to them. “What happened?”

After assuring the emergency operator that officers were on the scene, Chelsea hung up her cell and tossed it to the ground next to her. “It was a silver Cutlass. Late model,” she said while applying pressure to David’s wound.

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