Cause of Death by Jeffery Deaver

Author:Jeffery Deaver [Deaver, Jeffery]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-07-28T16:00:00+00:00

At seven that evening I’m back home.

I’m surprised neither Terry Garner nor Detective Bragg has called. Maybe they’re leaning toward the conclusion that my theory is nonsense.

Deer and skid marks . . .

I put the law enforcers out of my mind and go back into Pax’s office.

On a mission. I am going to find the identity of my wife’s lover.

The burner phone is locked, her iPhone and computer are gone. He, of course, stole them to eliminate any evidence of their connection. So, I’ll do my historian detective work the old-fashioned way. Paperwork. I’ll find a letter, a present with a gift enclosure, a Post-it with his name.

My book on methods of historical research explains the technique I follow. I look at each minute of history, rather than eras, avoiding drab, dreaded generalities. Micro, not macro. You can talk about the “Balkan unrest” leading to the carnage of the First World War, and not be wrong. But I would rather point out that at 11:15 a.m., June 28, 1914, in the Romanesque city of Sarajevo, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was alive, and at 11:30 a.m. he was dead, felled by the assassin Gavrilo Princip, who used a Belgium-made .380 semiautomatic pistol. And you then look at each of the dominoes that fell, one after the other, day by day, until the first cannon shot of the war was fired at Port Phillip Heads, Melbourne, Australia, August 5, 1914.

I am taking this minute-by-minute approach now. Carefully examining each item in Pax’s office, not letting a single sentence, phrase, photo or doodle slip by without my considering it.

Sometimes it’s dreadfully dull. Sometimes you come across a gem.

As tonight. After four hours I find the photograph.

It’s an old one—six or seven years. In the center of the image is my wife. Her smile is broad and not belittled by her downturned Lady of the Lowlands eyes. Next to her, his arm around her shoulders, is the Man in Gray, though here he wears a black knit shirt and tan slacks. And most helpful, from the analytical, minute-by-minute historian’s point of view, is one other fact: that the third person in the photo is Janet Addison, Pax’s younger sister.

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