George, Anne by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Crime & mystery, Genealogists, Mary Alice (Fictitious character), Fiction, Women Sleuths, Crime & Thriller, Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths, Contemporary Women, Women detectives - Alabama, Mystery fiction, Sisters, Large type books, Mystery, Mystery & Detective - General, Women detectives, Patricia Anne (Fictitious character), Mystery & Detective - Series, Alabama, Detective, Mystery & Detective, Fiction - Mystery, General, Suspense
ISBN: 9780380784493
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1997-06-01T05:00:00+00:00

"Can you do the other Camille one?"

"Sure." The Atchison one disappeared and in its place was one with the heading "Camille Johnson Atchison." At first glance, they seemed to be identical.

"I wonder why Meg had three entries for this woman?" Haley said.

"Well, this woman married an Atchison, and that's what her children are. But she was born a Johnson. So Meg had to go back through the Johnson family."

"Oh, of course," Haley said. "So Mama is a Tate and not a Hollowell."

"I hate the way women have to change their names," I grumbled.

"You jumped at the chance," Fred said. We all ignored him.

"Talk me through this one time," I asked Philip. "Show me exactly what to do to get the charts."

"Okay. I'm going to turn it off. You just follow the instructions I've written here."

I held my breath and went right to Atchison, Camille. My audience of three applauded. "Now how do I get out of this thing?''

Philip reached over and showed me.

"Just remember," he said as they were leaving, "you can't hurt a thing. Everything's saved, and if by some remote chance you erase the whole thing, I still have the disk. So just play with it." He started down the steps and turned. "And follow my instructions."

"What a nice man," I told Fred as I closed the door.

"And an ENT, too. Now come on, let's look at those cruises."

I did, and they all sounded wonderful. We narrowed our choices down to three, watched the ten o'clock news, and went to bed. But as soon as Fred was asleep, I was back at the kitchen table with the computer on. And under Camille Victoria Johnson, I found something very interesting. In trying to leave this file, though, and go to one of the Atchison ones, I did something wrong and the words "Fatal Error" came up on the screen. That'll get your attention. I turned the computer off immediately and unplugged it.

"Fred." I whispered as I crawled into bed beside him. "I think I just killed an expensive computer."

"That's okay," he said between snores.

Fourteen The The next morning when I went into the kitchen, Fred was sitting at the computer tapping keys, studying the screen like some kind of computer expert. "I thought you said you killed it," he said. "It's fine."

"What are you doing? And how come you remember my saying that? You were snoring."

"I'm just following the instructions Philip wrote down. Look, honey, here's old Darrell Dunaway married Carroll Ferguson. Named their first son Shank. I like Darrell and Carroll, but they could have done better than Shank."

I went over and looked at the screen. "How did you do that? Last night it said 'Fatal Error.' "

"The male's innate affinity with machines."

"Are you saying I messed it up because I'm a woman?"

"Something like that. The coffee's ready."

"Nice to know the affinity also goes for coffee machines. And I'll have you know I did exactly what Philip wrote down." I poured a cup of coffee and came back to the table.

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