Beastly House (A CupidArcher Mystery Book 1) by Joni Green

Author:Joni Green
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: murder mystery, whodunit, 1920s, jazz age, roaring twenties, murder mystery series, detective mystery series, 1920s fiction

Chapter 12

“What the devil!” Phalen exclaimed.

“This is much worse than I anticipated,” said Flix.

“I’ll say. A double homicide!”

“How far along do you think she is, Doc?” Flix asked.

“I’d say about 16 weeks.”

“So, now we have an added motive,” Flix mused on the ride home.

“Poor girl. No family, and when she finds herself in a family way, who could she turn to?”

“Our own Dr. Quintland, perhaps,” Flix answered.

“Perhaps, but I don’t think so. More likely, she’d turn to a friendly co–worker. Someone she saw as a mother figure, perhaps.”

“Or another girl her own age.”

“Yes. Blast it, Cupid. I surely did not see this coming.”

“Nor I. When we saw the body on the table, exposed and naked, I did not dream she was with child.”

“No,” Phalen said. “But it would be hard to tell, I mean with a big–boned girl like that.”

“Yes,” Flix said. “She could hide her pregnancy for awhile, yet. But, inevitably?”

“I know. And the evidence we’ve collected so far points to poison. But is not wanting a child reason enough to kill?”

“Men have killed for less,” Flix said.

“So, they have. So, they have.”

“But why strangle her?” Flix said. “That’s what I don’t get. She has all the signs of arsenic poisoning – horizontal lines on her fingernails, puffiness of the eyes, dusky patterns of discoloration on her skin. This whole case just doesn’t make any sense.

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