Fool's Deadly Gold by Clair M. Poulson

Author:Clair M. Poulson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Murder;Mystery;Clean;LDS;Adventure;Greed;Suspense
Publisher: Covenant Communications, Inc.
Published: 2019-07-15T20:33:13+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Roger needed to call Dade and explain what he’d learned after Dade left the day before, but the sheriff had told him to go to Helper and speak with Cutler Pike’s widow, for he was now certain Pike was the dead man they’d found near the mine. Maybe Roger could learn more about Cutler and see if his wife could give him any clues as to why someone, specifically Gus Colburn, would want to kill her husband.

He had learned Gus’s identity after speaking with him at the hospital early that morning. And Roger recalled the earlier disagreement Gus and Pike had been involved in at Hanna that had caused a deputy to go up there only to find them gone. Gus was under watch at the hospital since he was a suspect in the murders of both Cutler Pike and Bridgette Tansey.

Since Roger had had only a couple hours of sleep, Deputy Alec Harris had been assigned to drive him to Helper so Roger could get some rest on the way.

Roger was anxious to get back to his office and look at the video that was downloaded on Dade’s computer. He hoped it would confirm that Gus had killed Cutler. He had yet to learn how exactly Cutler had died, although the hole in his chest suggested he’d been shot with a gun. Ballistics would be able to confirm if it was the same gun Gus had fired at him and Dade. He’d looked the body over fairly closely after it was finally removed from its grave, hoping to find the bullet. But finding it would require another trip to Dade’s mine since the bullet had gone straight through the body. The video might help him know exactly where to look, but even then, the likelihood of finding it was slim.

“We’re in Helper, detective,” Deputy Harris said an hour or so after Roger finally drifted to sleep.

Roger woke up. “Sorry. I guess I’m pretty tired.”

“That’s why the sheriff had me drive you,” the deputy reminded him. “So how are you going to handle this?”

“First, we need to get a local officer to accompany us. We’ll meet him and then go on out to Pike’s place,” Roger said.

He made a call, and it was only ten minutes before an officer arrived. Roger explained the murder of Cutler Pike and why he wanted to inform the widow, hoping to learn something from her that would help build his case against Gus Colburn.

Belinda Pike was a short woman and quite overweight. She answered the door when Roger knocked some time later. “What now? Is Cutler in some kind of trouble? I wish he’d quit wasting all his free time looking for fool’s gold. And that’s all it is. It’s only fools that go looking for that stuff. Well, come on in. It’s getting hot out there.”

The local officer followed Roger and Alec into the house. Roger wrinkled his nose. “I burned the toast,” Mrs. Pike said sheepishly. “I had the toaster turned up too high.

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