High Heels and Holidays by Kasey Michaels

Author:Kasey Michaels
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2010-08-11T21:00:00+00:00

Jonathan West. New York. Rat??????

Sylvia Piedmonte. Massapequa Park, Long Island. Rat. Left town.

Garth Ransom (Buzz Noonan). New Jersey. Currently in Africa. Possible rat.

Kimberly Lowell D’Amico. Missouri. Rat??????

Lucius Santana. New Mexico. Deceased.

Frederick Brandyce. New York. Rat. Left town.

Bruce McCrae. New York. Rat.

Felicity Boothe Simmons. New York. Rat??????

Moi. New York. Rat.

Francis Oakes. New York. Rat. DEAD!!!

She looked up from the page. “I think we can safely say we’ve figured out at least part of this whole thing, at least enough to show a definite pattern. Do we really still need to know if Jonathan, Faith, and—” she took a peek at her notes; God, she really was bad at names, wasn’t she “—and Kimberly also got rats? Yeah, I guess we do, just to nail down our theory.”

“I’ve got Jonathan’s phone number,” Bruce said now, reaching into his pocket and pulling out a small electronic organizer. “Shall I give him a call? Ask him if he got a rat in the mail?”

“Good idea, since you know him. And then we have to call Kimberly D’Amico, too,” Maggie said. “And Faith, I guess. Hey, wait a minute, Bruce, don’t call him yet, not until we think about this a while. Maybe Jonathan is the one who sent the rats. I mean, think about it. Maybe he blames us for his career going into the toilet and he’s finally popped his cork, or something. You said he’d been acting strangely lately, right? We could be calling a murderer. Damn, why did Steve have to leave so soon? Alex, what do you think?”

Alex paused in the middle of shining his quizzing glass against the front of his sweater. “Oh, you’ve remembered that I’m still here? How gratifying. I was about to go into a sad decline.”

“Knock it off,” Maggie told him. “Come on, we’re all a part of the same team, right? Do we call these people or not?”

“I think if we’re careful not to alarm them that, yes, Mr. West, Miss D’Amico, and your friend Felicity should be notified as soon as possible. It will also be interesting to see how our Mr. West reacts, won’t it? But I would not stop there, as we are not at a point where we can rest on our laurels. It may come to nothing, but we were led in the direction we now agree upon only after reading the letters from Mr. Bryon and Mr. Gates, wasn’t it? Mr. Valentino Gates? I would suggest we pay morning calls on both gentlemen. I would further suggest that we offer to include Wendell on those calls, if he’s so inclined.”

“Which he doesn’t seem to be,” Maggie pointed out. “Bruce, you’re calling Jonathan now?”

Bruce held up one finger as he held his cell phone to his ear, then shook his head. “He’s not answering—wait, his machine picked up. Jonathan? Jonathan, hi, Bruce McCrae here and I’m calling at …” he looked at Maggie, who mouthed the word seven, “… around seven o’clock on Tuesday evening. I don’t want to alarm you, Jonathan, but we may have a small problem.

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