Ghost of a Chance by Bill Crider - Dan Rhodes 10 - Ghost of a Chance

Author:Bill Crider - Dan Rhodes 10 - Ghost of a Chance [Crider, Bill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery
ISBN: 9780312208899
Google: yWg2mQEACAAJ
Amazon: 0373263961
Barnesnoble: 0373263961
Goodreads: 485041
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Published: 1999-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

25

RHODES FORGOT ABOUT HIS EYES AND LOOKED AROUND the living room. Nothing other than the vase seemed to be out of place; aside from that, the room looked exactly as he’d left it.

He turned and went back outside, where Melva Keeler was still standing on the walk. She watched him coming toward her with wide eyes.

“Is Faye ... all right?” she asked.

“No,” Rhodes said. “She’s not. Do you know what time it was when Vernell Lindsey came by yesterday?”

Melva’s eyes went vague. Then they cleared and she said, “There was still enough light to read by, but it was already getting late. It must have been around four-thirty. Maybe a little later. Should I go call an ambulance?”

“I’ll take care of that,” Rhodes said. “There’s no hurry.”

“You mean that Faye is . . . dead?”

“That’s right. Do you remember whether anyone else came by after Vernell left?”

“I went inside right after she left. It was getting a little chilly. And then I watched the news and ate supper. After that I watched a rerun of Murder, She Wrote. I just love Jessica Fletcher. Faye does, too. Sometimes we’d talk about the show when we picked up our newspapers.”

Her eyes filled with tears, and she brushed them with the sleeve of her robe.

“I guess I won’t be talking to her about anything anymore.” She paused. “Did she have a stroke?”

“I don’t think so,” Rhodes said, wishing it was as simple as that.

“What was it, then?”

“I’m not sure.”

“Did Vernell... do something?”

“I’m not sure about that, either.”

“Oh, dear,” Melva said, and then her face changed as another thought struck her. “Who’s going to take care of Faye’s boys?”

“The boys?” Rhodes said, but then he remembered. “You mean the cats?”

“Yes. Someone will have to take care of them. Faye treated them just like members of her family. And someone has to feed them right now. They’re probably starving, and I’m sure they wonder what’s happened to her.”

“I’ll feed them,” Rhodes said.

“But who’s going to take care of them after that?”

Not me, Rhodes thought. He said, “I don’t know.”

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