Death of an Obnoxious Tourist by Maria Hudgins

Author:Maria Hudgins
Language: deu
Format: epub
Tags: 81410
Publisher: Five Star
Published: 2006-06-15T04:00:00+00:00

After much discussion, Lettie and I agreed we could mark eleven people off the list of suspects: Ourselves, of course; Amy and Tessa, since they could vouch for each other’s whereabouts; Crystal and Shirley, since they had their own little melodrama going; Dick, Michael, Walter, and Elaine, since they were apparently all together (but maybe they weren’t; we needed to check on that); and, of course, Ivo, since he was physically incapable of cutting a throat with his right hand.

We agreed that just because Paul Vogel had approached the group in the parking lot along with the gruesome foursome, it didn’t mean he had been with them at 5:30—a good thirty minutes earlier. Lucille Vogel was not eliminated because we hadn’t seen what direction she had come from, but I suggested it was highly unlikely she could have presented herself, smiling and completely free of blood spatters, only a few minutes after the murder.

“In fact, Lettie, that whole blood thing still bothers me. This would be a messy affair.” I saw the grimace creep down from Lettie’s forehead to her mouth and told her firmly, “Yes, messy.”

She gulped. “If the person was standing behind Meg, wouldn’t the blood have squirted out the other way? Toward the front?”

“I suppose so. But it would have virtually poured out. And blood is under pressure, you know, when it goes up your neck.”

Lettie put her fingers against her own carotid artery and nodded weakly. “It would have gotten all over his or her hands.”

“And I have a great feeling at least some of it would have gotten on the killer’s clothes.”

“So the killer had time to clean up.”

“And the means of cleaning up. I doubt he or she would have hung around in that room to wash up. He or she would have run out immediately. That makes the people who were supposedly in their rooms, or who could have dashed into their rooms quickly, seem most likely.”

“Not really,” Lettie sat up. “If it was Cesare and he left the hotel unobserved, he had hours to clean up. Same goes for Gianni.”

I couldn’t decide if we had made progress or not. Things were still a bit of a muddle, but at least we had eliminated a few folks. “Lettie,” I remembered at last to ask, “who’s in room three sixty-six, across the hall from Beth’s new room?”>

“Walter Everard and Elaine King, the married couple you say aren’t married, and Dick Kramer and Michael Melon are in room three sixty-eight, next door.”

So now I had to find Paul Vogel and make him a proposition.

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