Death on Demand 18 - Death Walked in by Carolyn Hart

Author:Carolyn Hart [G., Hart, Carolyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-02-02T05:00:00+00:00

d e a t h w a l k e d i n

Annie felt ashamed. Marian Kenyon couldn’t report what the unseen informant told Annie because the material wasn’t privileged and was possibly libelous on its face. However, now all Marian had to do was quote Annie saying the woman beneath the pier had been told by Gwen Jamison that she recognized the thief, explain that the lack of privilege prevented the Gazette from describing possible suspects, then follow with the quote from Geoff Grant insisting that the woman at the pier was absolutely mistaken and no one in the Grant family was involved.

Readers would follow the bouncing ball without any difficulty.

Annie stared at the floor. She’d intended to rile the Grant family. She’d succeeded. Unfortunately, all of the Grants would now be suspects even though only one person was guilty.

“All right.” He was terse. He stood. “What’s done is done.

Now we have to deal with the aftermath.” He moved away, head down. Halfway to the door, he turned and looked back. “I told the police they have to find that woman at the pier. Officer Harrison said she would talk to the Jamison family, get a list of Gwen’s close friends. How clearly did you see her?”

Annie had her story down now. “I scarcely caught a glimpse before she rowed around the headland.” Thin and small and bony. Not a young woman.

He didn’t move. “I sail in the bay. It’s at least forty yards before the boat would be out of sight.”

Annie said nothing.

His face hardened. He strode toward the front. The door closed.

Annie’s heart pounded. Geoff Grant wanted to talk to the informant. So did his wife, Rhoda.As soon as the Gazette came out this afternoon, the residents of the Grant house on that fateful 149

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