Capital Murder by Dan Willis

Author:Dan Willis [Willis, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-04-18T22:00:00+00:00

Half an hour later Alex opened the door to his suite in the Hay-Adams hotel. He stopped in the washroom to check that he’d managed to get all of Sorsha’s lipstick off his face, then opened the door to his vault. He had a feeling that the key to solving Paul Young’s murder was in the details of the highway bill, but he’d need help to find it.

Picking up the phone next to his writing desk, he dialed Sherry’s number.

“Boss?” her tired voice came across the line a few moments later.

“How’d you know it was me?” Alex chuckled.

“You’re pretty much the only person who has my number,” she admitted. “What do you need?”

“Do you have a suitcase?” he asked, remembering the conversation he’d had with Andrew Barton on the airship.

“Yeah,” she said, somewhat hesitantly. “Why?”

“Get packed for a couple days, then get over to the office,” Alex said. “I’ll have train tickets for a pullman car delivered by the time you get there and a car to take you to Grand Central Terminal.”

“And where am I going?” she asked, not bothering to argue.

“Springfield, Illinois. I need you to do a record search when you get there, probably pull some business licenses, too. I’ll have all of that for you in the morning.”

“What do I do when the train gets in?”

“Just get a hotel room somewhere near the city offices,” Alex said. “I’ll have some cash for your expenses and I’m giving you a key to the back door.”

He waited for her to ask questions, but all he could hear over the line was the sound of scribbling as Sherry wrote his instructions down.

“Okay,” she said. “I should be over to the office in about half an hour. I’ll see you then.”

Sherry hung up and Alex pressed down the receiver hook, then let it up again. He waited for the operator, then had her connect him to Grand Central so he could purchase Sherry’s train ticket.

A few minutes later, he set down the phone and returned to the hotel room. This time he picked up the phone on the little desk and dialed the number for Tiffany Young.

“Didn’t Duke get you into my husband’s office?” she asked once Alex identified himself.

“Yes, but Senator Colins came along and threw us out,” he explained. “He didn’t seem too happy that we were there. Was there any bad blood between him and your husband?”

“No,” Tiffany said without hesitation. “They weren’t on any of the same committees, so they rarely worked together. As far as I know, he and Paul barely spoke.”

Alex brushed the thought aside. Senator Colins’ reaction to finding people in his office seemed a bit strange, but the man might just appreciate his privacy.

“Since we got kicked out, we didn’t get a chance to finish our investigation,” Alex said. “Do you think you could get me a copy of the federal highway bill that’s going up for a vote on Friday?”

“Of course,” she said, as if it would be the easiest thing in the world.

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