Breathless by Laura Lee Guhrke

Author:Laura Lee Guhrke [Guhrke, Laura Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Historical, Georgia, Legal
ISBN: 9780671023683
Google: TPmYpPedYCQC
Amazon: 1416598367
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 1999-07-01T07:00:00+00:00

By the time they met the following evening, Lily had typed all the notes Daniel had given her, and she had copied the names from the register of the Shivaree Hotel.

Daniel had also been busy. He had telegraphed Judge Billings, who was currently adjudicating a case in Calhoun. He received a reply that the judge would be returning to Shivaree on Monday, and would schedule the arraignment of Amos Boone for the following day, with the grand jury to convene the day after. If the grand jury handed down a true bill, a trial would follow.

Daniel also learned that because the public prosecutor for Jaspar County was a third cousin of Amos's on his mother's side, he would not be able to try the case for the People, and a special prosecutor would be brought in from Atlanta. That prosecutor was Hugh Masterson, who had volunteered to take the case. Daniel knew full well what Hugh's reason was for being so magnanimous. Hugh would be out for his blood after the Rossiter case, and that made him even more resolved to win an acquittal for Amos.

When working on a case, Daniel rarely interviewed a witness just once. Experience had taught him that often it was the third or fourth interview that yielded the most valuable information, sometimes because the witness had forgotten certain details or had deemed them too insignificant to mention. So Daniel met with Helen Overstreet again, and he interviewed both Sheriff Trusedale and Dr. Wilson a second time. By the time he met with Lily that evening, Daniel had sorted through all the evidence he had gleaned and had come to several conclusions about Corrine's death.

"There are three possible motives for killing the girl," he told Lily as he paced restlessly around the library, thinking out loud. "The most obvious solution is that one of the men who visited the club that night killed her. I'd better ask Helen who Corrine's regulars were."

"Regulars?"

"Most prostitutes have regular customers, who request them over and over again. If one of Corrine's regular customers wanted to see her, but she was busy with other men, he might have slipped into the kitchen for the knife, then gone up the back stairs, and killed her in a fit of rage or jealousy. Or maybe he isn't a client. Maybe he's just some twisted man who gets his fun by killing prostitutes."

He caught sight of Lily's grimace of distaste and stopped pacing. "Don't get all ladylike and delicate on me now, Lily," he said. "If I'm worrying about your sensibilities, I can't discuss the case with you."

"Sorry," she answered. "But it's so sordid."

"Murder is sordid," he answered shortly and continued to pace. "I want you to telegraph Josiah in Atlanta tomorrow and ask him to find out if there have been any similar murders of prostitutes recently, especially in Georgia."

Lily made a note to do that as Daniel went on, "Another possibility is that one of the people in town became overly zealous about temperance, and killed Conine in the hope of getting the club shut down.

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