Gertrude, Gumshoe Cozy Mystery Box Set by Robin Merrill

Author:Robin Merrill
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: funny cozy mystery, quirky cozy mystery, cat cozy, cozy mystery with cats, cheap cozy mystery, cozy mystery set in Maine
Publisher: New Creation Publishing
Published: 2017-10-04T00:00:00+00:00

9

Willow met Gertrude at the door. “You’re late.”

“No, I’m not,” Gertrude said, taking off her coat.

Willow pointed at the clock. “It’s past nine.”

Gertrude looked at the clock. “Oh bosh. It’s two minutes past nine. Anyway, I have a good reason for being a few seconds late.” Gertrude waited for Willow to ask, but she didn’t. So Gertrude told her anyway. “I had to booby-trap my trailer before I left this morning. Then my cats sprung half the traps, and I had to start all over.”

Willow wisely avoided this topic of conversation. “Whatever. Come on, someone practically destroyed the plus-sized section. We’ve got to go organize.”

Willow wasn’t kidding. Someone had definitely made a mess of the full-figured items. “What in tarnation?” Gertrude asked.

“I know. I wonder the same thing. I guess people think that because the stuff is used, they can treat it like it has no value?” She bent over to pick up a zebra-striped cami and put it back on a hanger.

Gertrude followed her lead and began to pick up the many items that had fallen off or been knocked off the rack. She tired of this after the third time she bent over, so she let Willow do the heavy lifting and she began to simply neaten up the hanging blouses. As she did this, she noticed a flurry of activity in the row of large blouses. “What’s she up to?”

Willow rolled her eyes. “Oh, we kind of just let Azalea do what she wants to do. She is currently organizing blouses by color. It’s annoying, but it makes her happy. I’ll have to go through later and make sure she didn’t screw up the sizing while she was making her rainbow.”

Gertrude scowled. “What do you have against rainbows? I happen to like rainbows.”

“I’m sure you do.”

Gertrude was wondering what she’d meant by that when she noticed two uniforms enter the store. She groaned.

“What?” Willow asked, looking up.

“The cops are here.”

“So?”

“So, I really don’t like Hale.”

“Who’s Hale?”

“The handsome one.”

Willow giggled, and Gertrude looked at her, shocked.

“What?” Willow asked.

“I didn’t know you knew how to laugh. Or smile, come to think of it.”

“Oh, shut up,” Willow snapped, her giggle long gone.

Gertrude watched the two deputies speak to Sherri up front by the registers. Then Sherri led them toward the back. Gertrude’s eyes followed them all the way through the swinging doors. When she could no longer see them, her feet decided to give chase. Slowly.

“Where do you think you’re going?” Willow asked.

“I’m going to go see what they’re up to. They’re probably finally looking for the murder weapon. I’ve got to tell them where I’ve already searched. Don’t want them to waste their time.”

“Get back here!” Willow commanded, but Gertrude was already gone.

She pushed through the swinging doors just in time to see the police escorting Roderick out through the back. In handcuffs. Sherri watched him go, and then turned around and saw Gertrude gawking. “Back to work,” she said, firmly, but not unkindly.

“Why’d they arrest Roderick?” Gertrude asked.

“It’s not our business, Gertrude.

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