Honest Doubt by Amanda Cross

Author:Amanda Cross [Cross, Amanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, cookie429, Kat, Extratorrents
ISBN: 9780307415493
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2009-02-12T13:00:00+00:00

And it was she who, while attending an “intellectual” dinner where everyone was supposed to give an opinion on adultery, said airily—and impertinently—“I’m so sorry, I prepared incest by mistake.”

—EDMUND WHITE, Marcel Proust

Eight

NATURALLY, or so it seemed to me, I wanted to call up Kate the next morning and request an afternoon meeting. I wanted to ask her who said, “she for the god in him,” and I wanted to tell her what I had learned—not much—and what I’d figured out from what I’d learned: even less. But, I reminded myself, I was supposed to be doing my job, which was in New Jersey, not conferring with the likes of Kate Fansler, however much I wanted to do just that.

It did occur to me, as I stuffed my backpack with the necessities, now including a cell phone with which the ecstatic Octavia had presented me on my arrival, that I had had more stimulating conversations since the beginning of this job than in most of the rest of my detective career. I decided I had to protect myself against this new form of flirtation— well, new to me, anyway—and to ask some hard, pointed questions. My trouble was, I told myself after waving goodbye to Octavia, that I’d let my suspects set the agenda when talking to me. I’d learned about Virginia Woolf’s play Freshwater, and about Dean Kimberly’s gutsy decisions about her children, and about Antonia’s views of the department, but only Kate Fansler, without sounding off, had actually explained something in direct answer to my questions, and Kate wasn’t a suspect or even part of the scene of the crime. Pull yourself together, Woody, I ordered.

Riding out there, I went over the list of professors, all ranks, and reminded myself what they taught and what I knew about them. In most cases, damn little. I’d talked to David Longworth and Antonia Lansbury; Haycock was dead, but I’d talked to his wife recently, and his children before the anonymous letter had widened the field of departmental suspects.

I also knew all there was to know about digoxin that could be gathered anywhere. It was a certain cause of death, and seemed to be a bit too readily available for so toxic a drug, but then, I had to remind myself, most folks weren’t trying to kill themselves or anybody else. It’s widely prescribed for anyone with a history of atrial fibrillation, which is, I had learned, the most common cardiac dysrhythmia. Haycock, who had cardiac dysrhythmia along with all his personality defects, kept a supply. So do many other people. The family, wife and children, used to get Haycock’s prescription refilled for him—they were known to the pharmacist he used—but it wasn’t clear at the time and probably never would be whether the digoxin used was from Haycock’s supply or someone else’s.

Don had told me the police were looking into that; it was so common a drug, however, and easy enough to make from the even more common foxglove plant,

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