A Bogie in the Boat_A Linx and Bogie Mystery by Elizabeth Hunter

Author:Elizabeth Hunter [Hunter, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy, paranormal
ISBN: 9781941674277
Google: _3MsvAEACAAJ
Publisher: Recurve Press, LLC
Published: 2018-07-09T03:02:21+00:00

I was sitting in my backyard, drinking a beer and staring at Bogie. “He did it.”

Vincent said, “I thought we knew that already.”

“I still harbored a few doubts, but I don’t anymore.”

Frank cocked his head. “What changed?”

“I couldn’t wrap my head around a guy like Caralt murdering for comic books. Even as big a collector as he is, he has to have insurance, right? He’s a businessman too. Very successful. Why would he risk everything to get his comics back?”

Frank said, “He’s obsessive and smart? Thinks he’s above the law?”

I shook my head. “I don’t think it was about the baseball cards. Or the theft. Not really.” I sipped my beer. “I think he found out Gabby was after him for his collection. She didn’t like him, she liked his comic collection—or the money she could get from it anyway. And she’s not after his money the traditional way either. She steals from him. That’s what really set him off. The insult to his ego, not the theft.”

“Either way, he killed ’em,” Frank said.

I nodded. “Yep.”

“We have anything concrete enough to take to Detective Lee?”

“Nope.”

Vincent said, “I wish I could remember what happened.”

“We know what happened,” I said. “Roughly. You guys stole from him, he found out—”

“But how did he find out?” Frank said.

“Hmm?”

“How did Caralt figure out who was behind the theft?”

“It’s just a guess,” I said, “but a really cute girl started to cuddle up to him, he tells her about his super-awesome-amazing comic book collection, then the collection gets stolen. I’m guessing he put two and two together.”

Vincent said, “Then he goes and hunts us down?” The ghost rubbed his hands over his arms. “That’s so cold.”

“How did he find Gabby?” Frank asked. “Would Gabby have taken a mark to her own place?”

“No way,” Vincent said. “Maybe the comic book shop? They might have her address. But they might have her parents’ because she was living there when she started working at the shop.”

I said, “I don’t think Caralt would want anyone knowing he was asking around about Gabby. He’s not dumb. He wants his comics back and he wants revenge on the girl who insulted him. He might not have even planned to kill her. I don’t know.”

“Records searches can be done on the computer now,” Frank said. “You and I do them all the time. He’s a computer guy, right?”

I nodded. “As long as there was something in her own name attached to her current address, he might have been able to find her.”

“Gabby didn’t own much,” Vincent said. “She lived with a roommate, and the apartment was in her roommate’s name because she was there first. Gabby just wrote her a check for her share of the rent. I remember them arguing about it on the phone and her roommate getting pissed because if Gabby was late with rent, it was affecting the roommate’s credit score or something like that.”

“Okay, so her name wasn’t listed on her apartment,” Frank said. “She own a car?”

“Yeah,” Vincent said.

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