O Happy Dagger by Monica Knightley

Author:Monica Knightley [Knightley, Monica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Monica Knightley
Published: 2016-08-20T22:00:00+00:00

10

Saturday, September 5th

After closing the tea room and cleaning the dining room and the kitchen, I pulled Gina and Eric aside.

“Eric, if I share some information with you, do you think you could keep it to yourself? As in not go running to your uncle with it?” Steve Talbott had not been happy with my previous turns at playing the amateur sleuth and I didn’t want him to know I was slightly up to my old tricks again.

As I looked into the handsome face of my new employee I could see why the female customers liked him so well. Not only was he model-gorgeous, but he had a friendly, warm appearance about him. Like someone you’d want for a best friend.

He chuckled. “Yes! Believe it or not, I don’t go running to Uncle Steve with everything I hear.”

I believed him. Of course, if he’d told me he was flying to Mars the following week, I’d probably have believed that too. It was just his face. “Okay.” I turned my attention to Gina. “I have an idea of what might have gotten Victoria killed.”

I paused, waiting for the inevitable Gina Outburst.

“What?! Really?” she shouted. “What do you think it was?”

“I’m wondering if she might have been scalping tickets to the sold-out Twelfth Night,” I revealed, in my best dramatic voice.

“Oh, yeah, she was,” Eric casually shared.

“Huh? What? How do you know about that?” I asked, more than a little shocked by the offhand comment. “Did you ever think to mention this to the police?”

“No. I had forgotten about it, till you just said that. I heard a customer last week telling someone at their table that Victoria, at the Twelfth Night Hotel, could score tickets.”

“Oh my God,” Gina and I said in unison.

Gina slammed her hands down on the bare table. “How do you just forget something like that, when the person ends up getting murdered?” Gina’s voice had gone up a full octave.

“It was busy in here. It’s always busy in here. You hear lots of stuff during the day, there’s no way to remember it all.” Even as he defended himself he was careful to keep his voice calm.

“It doesn’t matter,” I said, focusing on Gina. I took a breath and let it out in a loud gust. “Here’s what I was going to say. I’m thinking that there could be a connection between Victoria and Crystal. It seems like a big coincidence that Crystal went missing the same day Victoria got killed. I’m thinking Crystal might have been killed by whoever was supplying her with the tickets. Maybe Crystal was scalping tickets, too, and the same person also killed her.”

Gina shook her head, as her middle three fingers tapped her mouth.

“Or…” she began, still tapping. “Crystal killed Victoria, and left town to escape the police.”

I stared at her. This scenario had never occurred to me, and it made more sense than mine. I didn’t want to admit it to her, though.

“I like that. Yeah, I like that a lot.

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