Murder in the Marigolds by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer [Mayer, Dale]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, cozy, Mystery
ISBN: 9781773363646
Publisher: Valley Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2021-02-01T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

“Hey, Mack,” Doreen said, feeling pleased with herself.

Where did you find this?” he snapped.

“Well, that’s why I wanted more information because I hardly found a thing. I mean, until we actually get anything, we don’t know squat, right? That’s how you always look at everything, right?”

“Where did you get this information?”

“Well, you’ll just get mad at him, and I don’t want that.”

“My brother?” he asked, incredulous.

“Well, not so much your brother as I did worm it out of him.”

He groaned. “Nick doesn’t know what you’re like. He didn’t stand a chance.”

“Thank you very much for that,” she said. “You make it sound like I’m some weasel.”

“Not a weasel at all,” he said, “but you weasel information out of people.”

She huffed. “Isn’t that the same thing?”

“No,” he snapped. “A weasel is like a rat, somebody who tells on another person.”

“Oh, so like you.”

Silence.

She snickered. “Never mind that. What’s your answer?”

“The answer is no. You’re not getting into this one. It’s connected to my case, so the answer is no.”

“But we don’t know how much it’s connected,” she said.

“Well, if you’re involved, chances are it’s very connected,” he said, speaking in a rapid voice. “I will take a look, but, if nothing’s there, we’ll drop it, okay?”

“Fine, but, while you’re taking a look,” she muttered, “you should check to see if the son and his wife, Robin, actually paid for law school themselves or if they managed to get through without having student loans to pay for it. Of course they’d use their inheritance to fund their futures.”

“Well, if they inherited a lot of money, they wouldn’t have had to pay for college.”

“Obviously,” she said, wondering where he was going with this.

“What are you talking about?” he snapped. “Don’t start talking around in circles again.”

“I’m not. You are.”

“Stop it,” he said.

“What if they wanted to go to law school and couldn’t afford it, and maybe the parents wouldn’t help them?”

“You think they murdered the parents so they could go to law school?”

“I don’t know. We’ve certainly seen worse motives.”

He stopped and thought about it. “Well, I’ll give you that. I mean, people do the stupidest things for the darndest reasons sometimes.”

“Exactly, and, of course, they can’t turn each other in because then they would incriminate themselves.”

“I wouldn’t have thought they would have gotten divorced at that point.”

“No, I think they’re both climbers. Who knows? They might even have still been involved with each other, but the bottom line is that they’re climbers.”

“Meaning?”

“I think any relationship they had would be to move themselves up the ladder.”

“Like with your ex?”

“Exactly. Maybe she was getting information or wanted to be one of his many lawyers. Maybe she was after information, or perhaps she just wanted to feather her nest a little bit.”

“Or all of the above? he asked.

“Precisely. But I don’t know anything about her husband.”

“And he hasn’t been on the scene for a long time.”

“Maybe,” she said, “but, while I was going through online images, I did find her with quite a few different men,” she said.

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