Deck the Hounds: An Andy Carpenter Mystery by David Rosenfelt

Author:David Rosenfelt [Rosenfelt, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery
ISBN: 9781250198488
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Goodreads: 37638165
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Published: 2018-10-16T05:00:00+00:00

I can prove that Ernie Vinson is the man Zoey bit.

He has his DNA on the bloody sleeve that was at the scene. Once we had our DNA results proving that, I withdrew my request that the state have the same test done. I’ll reinstate it later; the longer the prosecution is unaware of Vinson’s involvement, the better for me.

I can also prove that there was a connection between Vinson and Karen McMaster. Sam has gotten the phone records, and when the time comes I will subpoena them through normal channels. Again, I don’t want to do that yet, because I don’t want to tip off the prosecution.

I can’t prove that Vinson was the one who stole Carrigan’s hat, or previously attacked him. I have no doubt in my mind that this is the case, but unfortunately my mind won’t be one of the minds on the jury.

Of course, I also can’t prove that it was Vinson that murdered Steven McMaster. I believe that he either committed the murder himself, or directed someone else to do it. I also believe that whoever did it planted Carrigan’s hat there.

I don’t know if Carrigan was chosen specifically for this purpose, or was just in the wrong place at the wrong time and made an easy target for a frame. I suspect it is the latter because I haven’t yet found any previous connection between Carrigan and either McMaster or Vinson.

It is also obvious that Vinson was just the hired help. He left Joseph Russo because he had a better job, a chance to make much more money. That in itself is evidence that he was not calling the shots.

More proof lies in what Danny Costa told us about Vinson’s fear of someone as yet unidentified. Vinson had been sent to do something to Carrigan and he had failed. He feared that his failure would prove fatal, and he was right.

Vinson was working for scary, powerful people, and for some reason those people had Don Carrigan in their sights. Maybe it was just as a patsy, someone to pin the McMaster murder on. But they had already accomplished their goal; why send Vinson back for round two?

The important thing to uncover now is the reason that Karen McMaster was in contact with Ernie Vinson at all, but specifically why that contact came two days before her husband was murdered. Actually, the how might be more interesting than the why.

I can believe that Karen wanted her husband dead; I just don’t know how she would have found the person to make it happen. There has to be a third party who knew both of them and made the connection.

Sam Willis comes over to give Laurie and me his report on Karen McMaster. The police, based on the discovery documents, did very little work in that area. Ordinarily the spouse has to be eliminated as a suspect early on, especially when that same spouse stands to become single and very wealthy.

But Carrigan was such an

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