Murder at St. Winifred's Academy by J.D. Griffo

Author:J.D. Griffo [Griffo, J.D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington Books
Published: 2021-02-11T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 17

Non tutti i ragazzi crescono per essere uomini.

Being part of an amateur detective team meant always being able to rely on your partners. Except for those times when your partners were too busy to help.

Alberta and Helen were onstage working with Johnny to lock in the blocking for their opening scene and Joyce was huddled over a desk with Sloan working on the revised publicity campaign that had to highlight the new star of the show, while being sensitive to the reason the old star had been replaced. Jinx was on her own.

She slipped out of the theatre unnoticed without any thought of where to go, but by the time she was behind the steering wheel of her car she had a destination. It was Saturday, so there wouldn’t be anyone at The Herald and she’d be able to do some research uninterrupted. And if a colleague also gave in to the urge to work over the weekend, she’d say she needed peace and quiet from her large, loud Italian family to put the finishing touches on an article she was working on. Which wasn’t far from the truth.

As expected, the office was empty, which allowed Jinx free rein to work unencumbered without worrying if Calhoun, her main rival at the paper, or anyone else for that matter, would be lurking nearby, trying to snoop around and sneak a peek at what she was investigating. Or, more specifically, who.

Jinx couldn’t believe Kip was from the same hometown as Missy. What were the odds? It had to be more than a coincidence, especially because Kip had kept the fact a secret. When he was asked where he came from, he had told her grandmother he was from the Boston area, which was a generalization at best, but very far from the truth.

In the short time Jinx had known Kip, she had not taken him for the quiet type. He was a lawyer and an actor, two professions that required bravado and noise and were not suited for those with shy or tiny egos. Kip wasn’t obnoxious, but he was gregarious and talkative. He’d deliberately chosen to keep his origin confidential. But why?

Using the online search resources available to the newspaper, which were more extensive than those used by the general public, Jinx quickly connected Kip Flanigan to the address in Deer Isle, Maine, that she saw on the letter. It wasn’t an error, it wasn’t an optical illusion born out of wishful thinking on her part to connect Kip to the murder victim. At some point in his life before relocating to New Jersey, Kip had lived in the same town where Missy was born.

Energized, Jinx continued her search to delve deeper into Kip’s past and came up with innocuous bits of information. He graduated from Deer Isle-Stonington High School, went to Bowdoin College, and received his law degree from Boston University. According to the date on an old driver’s license and an obituary on the Jordan-Fernald Funeral Home in Mt.

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