Mint Crisp & Murder by Susan Gillard

Author:Susan Gillard [Gillard, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Guardian Publishing Group, LLC
Published: 2018-03-15T06:00:00+00:00

Rehearsal Space

Are you sure this is a good idea?” Amy asked.

She and Heather picked up the table and moved it to the side. They were clearing space in the seating area of Donut Delights so that the actors could rehearse there that night. Digby was moving the chairs against the wall as they worked on the tables.

“I think it’s a great idea,” Heather said. “We’ll be able to watch rehearsal close up and see if we can find any clues.”

“You don’t think it’s dangerous?” Amy asked with a grunt as they lifted a heavy table. “There’s a good chance there’s a killer in the cast.”

“No,” Heather said, as they set the table down. “Why reason could the killer have for coming after us?”

“Until we learn what the reason was for killing Willie Sales, we have no idea,” Amy pointed out. “And we are good investigators. The killer might poison us to stop us from getting too close.”

“Okay. That is a good point,” Heather admitted. “But Digby and Detective Peters are also in the cast. I think we’re safe.”

“What about having a poisoner so close to the food?” asked Amy.

“We’re not going to let anyone in the kitchen,” Heather said. “All our ingredients will be safe. We can clean the tables again if we’re really worried about safety.”

“All right,” Amy relented. “I guess I am interested to see this crazy play for myself. And to see Detective Peters’s acting debut.”

“And I’m excited to see what we can learn about the cast and crew as suspects,” said Heather.

“You’re sure it’s one of them?” Amy asked. “It couldn’t be someone who walked off the street and entered the theater through the loose door.”

“For someone to know about that loose door, they had to be familiar with the theater,” Heather pointed out. “And I think it also needed to be somebody who was familiar with the show.”

“Because they knew what Willie Sales would drink from?”

“Exactly,” Heather said. She clapped her hands together after they moved their last table, satisfied with the space they had made. “The killer had to know the play to know that Willie Sales’s character Doug drinks from the teacup. He’s supposed to take a sip at a certain time. The killer also had to be reasonably certain that no one else would drink the poison.”

Digby finished moving the chairs and came up to them.

“Thanks for letting us rehearse here,” he said. “I could use all the practice I can get now that I’ve been thrown into the new role. Because I was the understudy, I have been studying it. But that’s not the same as practicing it all the time.”

“You’ll be great,” Heather assured him. “And I was just telling Amy how having the rehearsal here would have its own perks.”

“You think it will help you solve the case?” Digby asked.

“Hopefully,” Heather said. “We think it had to be somebody involved in the show.”

“Please don’t think it was me,” Digby said. “I didn’t kill anyone to get their part. I

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