Lethal Lily by Joyce Lavene & Jim Lavene

Author:Joyce Lavene & Jim Lavene [Lavene, Joyce]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Mystery, Mystery & Detective, Cozy, Fiction
ISBN: 9781499295955
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2014-04-28T07:00:00+00:00

Pine

Pine trees have been around for millions of years. It has been found that the loblolly pine has a long genome that is more than seven times the size of the human genome. There are more than a hundred different species of pine.

Chapter Eighteen

It took about an hour to dig up Ann Fletcher’s coffin. Peggy rode back to the morgue with the dirty coffin in the medical examiner’s van. Arnie agreed to make the round trip back with his car so that Peggy could come back for hers. She had promised him information as they got it from the autopsy Dorothy would do on his sister.

Peggy sat on the narrow bench, staring at the faded, gray coffin. She hoped something good would come of this for Arnie and his sister. It also made her wish she’d had John cremated.

Dorothy was waiting at the back of the office where the bodies were taken in from the loading ramp. The two men who’d come from the morgue got the heavy coffin on a gurney and rolled it inside.

“How did it go?” Dorothy searched Peggy’s face.

“Everything went as well as it could,” Peggy responded. “Dorothy, this is Ann Fletcher’s brother, Arnie. He was out there with us. Arnie, this is the medical examiner, Dorothy Beck.”

Dorothy shook Arnie’s hand. “I’m so sorry it had to come to this. I know it’s never easy.”

“If it helps find the truth about what happened to my sister, it will be worth it.”

“He’s going to take me back to get my car,” Peggy explained. “I didn’t realize I’d have to ride back with the coffin.”

“Sure. You can’t beat protocol. I’m going to get started on the autopsy. Maybe I’ll have something when you get back.” Dorothy nodded and said goodbye to Arnie before she walked back inside the building.

“So you know for sure that Harry was killed by this poison.” Arnie held the door to the Cadillac open for Peggy.

“Yes. According to the original autopsy, there was convallatoxin in your sister’s body too. Not as much as in Harry’s, but we think the delivery method may have been different.”

“My sister was really into plants and herbs.” Arnie started the car. “She wanted to be an herbalist, or something like that. She had dozens of books on the subject.”

Peggy hoped those books were on their way back to Arnie’s storage shed. Paul might have to wait until dark to put everything back. Even though what he’d done had been stupid, she understood, and hoped he wasn’t caught setting it right.

“It’s possible she used lily of the valley on herself,” Peggy said. “Do you know if she had anything wrong with her?”

He shrugged as he kept his eyes on traffic. “Not really. We weren’t as close after she married Harry. It seems to me she might’ve used it as a sedative, if that’s possible. They had a rough life together.”

“It isn’t used frequently, but it could be something someone might play around with. It’s deadly, especially in large doses, or prolonged use.

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