Let It Crow! Let It Crow! Let It Crow! by Donna Andrews

Author:Donna Andrews
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

Chapter 20

“Where should I start?” I asked.

“Wherever you like.” The chief set a slow pace, and I fell in step beside him. “I assume his death’s going to play havoc with this TV show you’re filming.”

“Not really,” I said. “He was eliminated late yesterday afternoon—first one out.”

“Interesting.” He had taken out his little pocket notebook and was scribbling in it. “So the other competitors might not be my prime suspects after all, if eliminating him to improve their chances in the competition would no longer be a motive.”

“They still might be suspects,” I said. “Just not for that reason. Even before the end of the first challenge, I don’t think any of us were too worried about him as a competitor. But he’s done plenty of other things to annoy people. Nothing that would inspire me to do away with him, of course.”

“But you think others might feel differently?”

“Possibly,” I said. “In fact, I can think of one really good reason why someone might have knocked him off.”

The chief cocked his head to indicate that he was listening.

“Last night, after dinner, Brody made an opportunity to talk to me alone,” I said. “And he dropped a very thinly veiled hint that he knew what I’d been up to Sunday night, and if I didn’t want him to tell everyone, I should be really nice to him and help him get back on the show.”

“And just what were you up to Sunday night that he thought you wanted to conceal?”

“Nothing,” I said. “Nothing I’d have any qualms about seeing on the front page of the Caerphilly Clarion. Or The New York Times, for that matter. I went to the hospital with Faulk. I had a meeting with the producers and the other contestants. I turned in early, and Michael and the boys can testify that I didn’t go anywhere until I had to wake up at seven-freakin’-o’clock Monday morning.”

“This was the fishing you notified me about.” The chief scribbled some more. “I’d have called it attempted extortion, myself. I was planning to tackle him today—make sure he really didn’t see anything. But why would he approach you? You weren’t yet a competitor when Faulk was attacked.”

“Yes, but he thought I wanted to be,” I said. “And was seeing if I showed any signs of guilt. I was trying to figure out why he had approached me until I overheard him trying the same thing on John.”

“And Mr. Dunigan didn’t rise to the bait?”

“He pretty much said he knew Brody was fishing and told him to buzz off. But I’d bet anything Brody tried the same thing with some or all of the other competitors—pretending he had something on them and trying to talk them into helping him get back into the contest. For that matter, he might have tried it on anyone else he thought might be a suspect, but apart from the competitors, I can’t think of anyone else involved in the production who has an obvious motive for wanting Faulk out of the picture.

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