Knot Dead Again by Betty Hechtman

Author:Betty Hechtman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: amateur sleuth, pi, women sleuths, locked room mystery, knitting, crochet, crafts and hobbies, cooking mystery, small town california, prive investigator
Publisher: Beyond the Page Publishing

Chapter 16

My mind was swirling as I went back to the Lodge. The lieutenant had said that anything was possible, but I hadn’t believed that murder was really a possibility until now. Why else would somebody take the pill bottle other than to hide evidence? What was I going to do with that information? Should I tell the group? A big no flashed in my mind. How would it help to let them know they were stuck at Vista Del Mar with a killer on the loose. I thought about how I felt being stuck with a killer on the loose and it wasn’t good. But it was also a heavy burden to keep to myself.

Should I call Lieutenant Borgnine and tell him that it seemed like murder? He’d probably correct me and say homicide and then dismiss it, claiming my imagination had gone wild due to the circumstances of being stranded with a bunch of strangers. What if that was true? I was certainly stressed by the situation and Frank had gotten me thinking of it being a murder. I needed to air my thoughts with somebody.

I ruled out Cloris. She was on edge already trying to deal with all the guests’ needs. Trent’s death had only made it worse. Even though the possibility of it being murder had been brought up before, I didn’t think any of us had taken it seriously. But now there was something that seemed like proof. I was afraid if I told her about the pill bottle, she would freeze up again and become nonfunctional.

There was the option of ignoring the missing pill bottle, but it wasn’t my nature not to face a troubling state of affairs. Just like how I was handling Dane’s choosing someone else by planning to leave and start another chapter in my life somewhere else. I couldn’t just pretend I didn’t know what I knew.

Lucinda came out of one of the phone booths. She was dressed in fresh clothes and appeared put together down to her lipstick. Lucky her to have brought her suitcase. Her expression was tense and I figured that she had just talked to Tag. He always got upset when she came to the retreats, but being stranded here had to make it even worse.

“The good news is that things aren’t as bad in downtown Cadbury,” she said when she saw me. “Just lots of puddles and business is slow at the restaurant. The bad news is that Tag is beside himself that I’m stuck here. He didn’t even want to know how we had killed it at lunch. It was brilliant the way you made those biscuits.”

She stopped talking as my troubled expression registered. “What’s wrong? Did something else happen? What is it now?”

I looked for a spot where we would be assured of privacy. The cavernous interior was mostly empty. Dorothy and Mindy were sitting at one of the small tables near one of the windows, working on a jigsaw puzzle. James appeared to have come out of his solitude and was at the back playing pool by himself.

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