Mysteries of Max: Books 76-78 (Mysteries of Max Collection Book 26) by Nic Saint

Author:Nic Saint [Saint, Nic]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Puss in Books
Published: 2024-02-24T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 21

Our third crime scene of the night looked just about the same in every respect as the previous two. Mr. Mack Warmington had been killed with a single bullet to the head, and two more shots to the chest, and from the way he was lying, stretched out on the floor of his living room, the neighbor who had reported the possible crime in progress was correct: the victim had let his killer in the door.

“Looks like we’ve got ourselves a serial killer on our hands,” said Chase now as he studied the scene.

Dooley and I knew the drill, so we immediately went in search of any possible pet witnesses. Unfortunately, just like in the previous two cases, Mr. Warmington wasn’t amongst the multitudes of Americans who love having a pet around. He didn’t even own a goldfish as far as I could tell. Not that it would have done us any good, since goldfish are tough guys, and as everyone knows, tough guys don’t talk. They also don’t dance, but that’s neither here nor there.

“Not much for us to do here, Max,” said Dooley as we finished up our tour of the place. “No pets, no witnesses, no clues…” He gave me an expectant look. “Unless you’ve got it all figured out already?”

“No, I’m afraid I’ve got nothing figured out,” I said. “Except the fact that there seems to be a strong resemblance between all three of the victims: all of them lived alone, without any pets, and without any partners. So what does that tell you, Dooley?”

“Um… that maybe they were all members of the same club? The club for petless partnerless people?”

I nodded. “It certainly is something to take into consideration. It will no doubt be part of the investigation to determine whether they were all members of the same dating app, and possibly met their killer on that app.”

But that was something for Chase to determine. There would be background checks, phone records being studied, and internet search history closely looked at. Anything to provide a connection between the three victims and hopefully lead to their killer.

We had returned to the living room, where Abe Cornwall was looking extremely happy, I have to say.

“Three dead in one night!” the coroner caroled jubilantly. “This must be some kind of record. If you keep this up I’ll have to shift some stiffs at the morgue to make space for these fresh cadavers.”

Odelia grimaced at these words, which sounded harsh to the layman but probably were like music to the ears of your average coroner or medical examiner. After all, if you love your job, living in an area with a high crime rate is like manna from heaven. And at the rate we were going, this serial killer was undoubtedly going to make more victims before the night was over.

“I better call your uncle,” said Chase now as he took out his phone. “He told me to keep him informed of any developments in the case—or cases.”

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