Murder in the Locked Library by Ellery Adams

Author:Ellery Adams [Adams, Ellery]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2018-03-01T05:00:00+00:00

We’ve exposed the words. Come see.

Needing no further incentive, Jane grabbed the printouts and hurried through the staff corridors, out the loading dock door, and down the driveway to the garages.

Sterling was watching for her approach. He ushered her into his lab and locked the door behind her.

“The book is more unique than we originally thought,” Sinclair said. He sat on a backless stool, gazing fixedly at the cookbook through an LED magnifying lamp. Jane could see brown squiggly shapes on the pages. But what she saw made no sense. Typeface wasn’t squiggly. It was neat and uniform.

“Is that handwriting?” she asked.

Sinclair finally looked at her. “Yes. Apparently, this is a bound version of the original draft. It’s quite rough in places. Lines are crossed out here and ingredients added there. The editor must have had a hell of a time making sense of it all. Mr. Sterling and I have made two important discoveries. Mr. Sterling? Would you care to explain? You figured out that the writing had been done in turnip juice.”

“A lucky guess.” Sterling gestured at the book. “The recipes are all brand specific. They repeatedly recommend the use of ingredients produced by three food manufacturers. Mr. Sinclair and I have made a list of the manufacturers as well as the ingredients we believe could have been harmful if ingested in large quantities. I’ll have to do more fact-checking on those, however.”

Jane moved closer to the magnifying lamp and Sinclair immediately vacated his stool to give her a clear view of the exposed writing.

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