Finding David Chandler by Charles Ayer

Author:Charles Ayer [Ayer, Charles]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-25T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

I WAS SAVORING AN EGG MCMUFFIN and a large cup of coffee at McDonald’s the next morning when Lacey walked in. She grabbed herself a cup of coffee at the counter and took a seat opposite me.

“The classics never go out of style, do they?” she said, staring at my Egg McMuffin.

“I like to vary my diet, you know?” I said.

“Yeah, I know all about your varied diet.”

“That’s kind of the pot calling the kettle black, isn’t it, Lace?”

“It probably is. But, hey, as long as we both focus on health foods I guess it’s okay, right?”

“That’s how I see it,” I said, dead serious. Between pizza and Egg McMuffins, I figured I was getting a pretty balanced diet as long as I got green peppers on the pizza now and then. “So anyway, how did you find me here?”

“It’s not exactly hard, Matt. You weren’t home. Where else would you be?”

“You have a point. So what’s up?”

“Hang on a second,” she said, standing up. “That bad boy looks good. I’ve gotta have one.”

She came back in a few minutes with her sandwich and two fresh coffees.

“I’m assuming you didn’t come here for the sole purpose of critiquing my diet,” I said.

“No, I didn’t,” she said. “I came here because I feel stupid.”

“That must be a first for you,” I said.

“In my dreams,” she said. “I feel stupid because I missed something obvious, and it might be slowing down your case.”

“What’s that?” I said, putting down my sandwich. Lacey had already finished hers.

“Remember when I set up your website for you, how I told you that the search engine that you use will locate where you are so that it can narrow your searches to a specific region?”

“Yeah, I remember, “I said. “Like when I searched for “private investigators” it narrowed the search to the local area automatically.”

“That’s right. And the search engines and the sites you log onto will do that unless you expressly disallow them. That way they can target news and local ads that are relevant to you.”

“Okay. So what’s the point?”

“The point is that I think I recall you telling me that when you visited David’s office his laptop wasn’t there, and that Angie Forrester told you that he always took it home with him.”

“That’s right.”

“So what if he took it with him wherever he went? And what if he’s been logging onto it?”

“I never thought of that.”

“Don’t take this the wrong way, Matt, but I never would have expected you to. But I damn well should have expected myself to.”

“So, can you find out if he’s been using his laptop?”

“Yes, I could, but I’d prefer to do this on the up and up if we can. That’s a pretty serious form of hacking and, frankly, it would be faster and easier to do this by the rules.”

“So how do I do that?”

“You go to the Orange County Bank and Trust and ask for their cooperation. You won’t have a search warrant, of course, but perhaps they’ll be willing to help you out.

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