Dangerous Friends (Carlos McCrary PI, Book 4) by Dallas Gorham

Author:Dallas Gorham [Gorham, Dallas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ePublishing Works!

I called Flamer.

“If you’re calling about the rest of the report on Katherine Shamanski, it’s ready. I’m emailing it now.”

“I called to talk to you about your report on Morris Shamanski and Virginia McAllister.”

“So talk.”

“You made it sound like what they did was criminal. I did my own research on this. No one’s gone to jail over any of her political contributions or his investment subsidies. The New York Times even called one scandal that you included a ‘phony scandal.’”

“Everything in that report is a verifiable fact I teased out of dozens of reports filed with the Federal Election Commission and other federal government open-record websites. You can interpret the cause and effect yourself. I stand by my report. Who you gonna believe, me or the idiot media New York Times?”

“Good point.”

Flamer hung up without a word.

“Flamer is sending the rest of his report on Katherine Shamanski. We need a wall map of the Southeast United States. Trot over to a book store and pick one up, will you?”

“How about I drive over to the book store instead? I don’t trot unless someone is shooting at me. Then I run like hell.”

Flamer’s email report arrived seconds after Snoop left the office. As I suspected, Shamanski had not visited her parents in Chicago every weekend. Credit card charges confirmed that she’d flown to Chicago about once a month. The other weekends for each of the last three months, she had made credit card charges for gasoline and motels several places around north Florida and in Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina.

Snoop walked in with a cup of coffee in one hand and a map tucked under his arm. “Where you want the map?”

“Tape it on the corkboard. There’s masking tape in the supply closet.” I finished my first pass through Flamer’s report.

After Snoop mounted the map, I found a yellow highlighter in the desk drawer.

“How much does a bag of ammonium nitrate fertilizer sell for?”

Snoop tapped the keyboard. “About a hundred bucks online, plus or minus, for a fifty-pound bag, more at a small-town garden store. Say a hundred ten plus tax‍—a hundred twenty to be safe.”

“If she picked up, say, four bags, she’d need five hundred dollars cash before she left town. I don’t think she would withdraw five hundred dollars at one time. That would be pretty rich for a college student, even one with wealthy parents.”

“Unless she was stupid and used ATMs along the way, maybe in towns where she bought fertilizer. Then she could make more frequent, but smaller withdrawals.”

“Stupid or careless. Either one would help.” I scanned Katherine’s travel charges. “First out-of-town charge is Ocala, Florida on Friday, January 13 at a Cumberland Farms. From the amount, it has to be for gas. Ocala is about a tank full from Port City. She rented a room at a Holiday Inn Express.” I marked the highway from Port City to Ocala. “Then she charged lunch in Quakerville, Georgia at a local café and drove through Valdosta. Quakerville is twenty miles from Valdosta.

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