Blind Dates Can Be Murder by Mindy Starns Clark

Author:Mindy Starns Clark
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery, Romance
ISBN: 9780736935586
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Published: 2006-03-15T04:00:00+00:00

“I still don’t understand why I have to be here,” Lettie whispered sharply.

“Shhh,” Tank insisted. “Keep it down. I told you, I need you here to hold the flashlight and to keep watch.”

They were hiding behind some bushes and waiting for the last police car to pull away from Frankie Malone’s house. They had parked almost a mile away, in the deserted parking lot of a convenience store, and walked from there. Now, as they watched the red taillights of the cop car disappear up the gravel road toward the highway, Tank decided it was safe for them to move.

“All right, let’s go.”

Crouching, the two of them ran toward the old farmhouse. Yellow police tape was stretched across the doorway, but Tank wasn’t interested in going there anyway. Instead, clicking on his flashlight, he ran around the side of the house, through the overgrown garden, to the Bilco door over the basement.

“You hold the flashlight,” he commanded.

Lettie did as she was told, pointing the beam toward the rusty padlock. Tank had brought along a battered sack of supplies, and from it he produced a hacksaw. It only took a few moments to cut right through the metal and pop it open. The door made a horrible sound of metal against metal as he pulled it up, but they were alone in the woods now with no one around to hear.

“Wait here.”

Tank took back the flashlight and descended into the basement. Lettie watched as he played the beam around the room, especially on an empty shelf that spanned one wall. Finally, he pulled out his cell phone and punched in a number.

“Mickey, it’s Tank,” he said. “Okay, I’m back in the basement and the shelves are empty, just like we told you before, when we came and took the computer…yeah…okay…that’ll be about the only place we haven’t looked. If it ain’t there, I don’t know where else it could be. Okay. I’ll call you back.”

He hung up and emerged from the basement. Lettie hoped that meant they were leaving, but instead he gestured for her to follow him across the backyard, through tall weeds and overgrown grass that scratched her legs.

“Where are we going?” she whispered sharply, reaching down to brush a bug from her thigh.

“Here,” he said, stopping at what looked like some sort of structure. As he played the light over it, Lettie realized that it was a well. Weeds had grown so tall around it that the stone wall was almost completely obscured.

Tank pushed through the foliage and leaned over the top of the well, shining his light down inside.

“You see anything?” he asked.

Gingerly, Lettie stepped forward and looked down into the empty hole. It was dark and deep.

“Like what? What are we looking for?”

He grunted.

“For anything that shouldn’t be in a well.”

The beam wasn’t strong enough to go all the way to the bottom, but certainly nothing reflected back at them or seemed out of place.

“Hold this.”

He again handed her the flashlight and then dug a rope from his sack.

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