Inn Trouble by Dixie Davis

Author:Dixie Davis [Davis, Dixie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: mystery, North Carolina
Publisher: Dusky Cove Books
Published: 2018-03-07T06:00:00+00:00

Once Vera said she was all right, Lori held her at arm’s length, still sitting on their floral couch. “I still want to find who did this.”

“Thank you,” she said.

“I talked to Karl at InnCon. It would have been hard for him to make it to InnCon when he said he got there, unless he was speeding away from here.” But she’d neglected to ask if anyone had seen him. He’d said he was almost the first person, so he must have seen someone else, right?

Lori moved on to the next suspect. “I also saw Tom at InnCon. He’s staying in Wilmington too.” She realized she’d never asked him for a specific alibi for this morning, but that was because she realized everything pointed to Clint.

Vera’s shoulders lowered. “I don’t want to think anyone we worked with could be capable of something like this.”

And that was part of the information that she’d learned from Tom — Howard and Clint’s history of violence. “I heard that Howard and Clint got in a fight at InnCon two years ago. Is that true?”

Vera cringed. “It was an argument, but yes. It was ugly.”

“Do you think Clint could have done this?”

Vera shook her head slowly. “I don’t know why he would have. But I don’t know who else could have.”

“Clint wasn’t at the conference today, either. I’m going to try to track him down here in town. Okay?”

Vera nodded.

Mitch caught Lori’s eye as she stood, and she smiled her thanks.

“Why don’t I go get my computer,” Mitch said, “and we’ll look for wallpapers?”

“All right.”

Lori headed back to her office and found Beth’s handwritten phone directory still hanging on the wall. Half the numbers were crossed through, but the Blue Heron was still listed. Lori dialed the number and waited.

“The Blue Heron, George speaking.”

Should she approach him as an innkeeper or just somebody trying to talk to one of his guests?

Probably the latter. While she might be able to build on innkeeper rapport, it was simpler to just ask. Besides, it wasn’t untrue that she was just a person looking for Clint, after all. “Hi, George. I’m trying to reach Clint Cooper, but I’ve lost his number.”

“We don’t have anyone here by that name, sorry.”

“Thanks anyway.” She hung up. The Cape Inn was the only other B&B in town. Unless he was staying at the Riverboat with Walt?

She had better check. She dialed Walt’s number, but there was no reason for pretense with him. “Hi, Walt,” she said when he answered. “It’s Lori. Do you have a Clint staying here?”

“Nope, still no Clint. You want to ask again in a few more hours, see if it changes?”

“Will it change?”

“Probably not.”

So much for Walt’s help. Lori looked up the number to the Cape Inn. She didn’t know the innkeeper there well, but really, she was just looking for Clint to talk to him. When the innkeeper, Sara, answered, Lori asked for Clint’s room.

“Yeah, let me put you right through.”

Lori sighed in relief. She’d found him.

But now she was going to have to talk to a killer.

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