Murder at the Lone Peak: Cozy Mystery (A Lone Peak Hotel Mystery Book 1) by Kendall Scott

Author:Kendall Scott [Scott, Kendall]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-08T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

The Spring Fair was only seven days away, and there was still so much to do.

First, there were the stages that had been set up for the “Best in Town” competition. Although the majority of the stages had been built already, they still needed to be painted and decorated. Unfortunately, this was to be done by the Elementary School as part of a class project, and as Mrs. Norbet had been sick all week, she hadn't gotten around to organizing her students yet. So that needed to be taken care of.

And then there was the issue of the supplies promised by Mr. Trunch of the Lone Aisle Supermarket. Where the food-stalls at the fair had all been organized already, most were still waiting on supplies that were meant to be donated by the town's only supermarket. For some reason, Mr. Trunch was dragging his feet in doing this and would need a good kick up the butt.

As well as these things, the cotton candy machine had broken down overnight – rumors of the firemen stealing it to their station and spending the night using it as if it were their own was squashed and ignored – and a new one would have to be located and ordered.

On top of all of this, the sound system wasn't working the way it should. This meant that electricians from Denver were going to have to be called out to take and look and possibly replace the entire set-up. If this happened, then the stages would have to be moved and rearranged to account for the new speaker layout and if that happened... well Constance didn't even want to think about it.

In short, there was still a lot to do and so little time to do it in. Now usually Constance would relish in such a set of circumstances. She loved nothing more than being down in the fourth quarter with little time to spare. That was when she shone the brightest. Unfortunately, with everything that was happening at The Lone Peak she wasn't able to take the reigns as she would have usually liked. She was forced to delegate, and this only led to more delays.

The only solution to the problem would be to put the solving of the murder on hold until after the Fair, but that wasn't even a solution. By that time the Denver police would have swarmed on in and shut her hotel down entirely. As much as she hated to admit it, the Fair came second in her laundry list of problems.

But just because it came second, didn't mean it was to be ignored entirely. Following her botched interrogation of Mr. Tibbs, Constance hopped to it and hurried on down to the Fair where she was to meet her chef Gustavo. He was doing an inspection of the cooking space he would be using and had asked her to be there in case he needed anything.

Constance really wanted that first place prize – as did Gustavo – so this was one appointment she wasn't going to miss.

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