Palm Beach Pretenders: A Charlie Crawford Mystery (Book 5) by Turner Tom

Author:Turner, Tom
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tribeca Press
Published: 2018-04-01T00:00:00+00:00

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It turned out there were three other couples and a threesome at the house, so Jared had been low on his estimate. Ott took all their names, but he and Crawford were almost certain that none of them knew anything about the death of Xavier Duke. In fact, four of the nine claimed that they had never even met the man. They had come to Windsong for the famous parties and ended up spending the night there with, in two out of three cases, people they’d never met before.

None of the nine, including Jared and Ellie, had seen Duke leave the house. Crawford and Ott spent an hour checking the home’s four security cameras—one at the front door, a second at the back door, and two exterior ones—and didn’t see Duke leave the house.

Then they went to Xavier Duke’s bedroom, which was large but not as large as they expected. It had a room off of it, which had been turned into a neatly organized office. The bedroom furnishings were a tasteful but dated Victorian style dominated by burgundy and deep blue colors. The most surprising feature was a simple, queen-sized brass bed. Or maybe it was just that Crawford expected that the bed would be the dominant feature of the room. Like it had been in Hugh Hefner’s original.

There was an iPhone on a nightstand next to the bed. Crawford reached in his pocket, pulled out his vinyl gloves, put them on, and picked up the iPhone. Unlocked, fortunately. He scrolled down the recent calls. It looked as if Duke had called a man named Danny at least three times a day. Then Crawford saw one that said ‘Mom’ and recognized the 312 Chicago area code.

He looked at Ott across the room. “I found a number for his mother.”

Ott glanced back. “You’re up, bro. I did the last one.”

Crawford nodded and dialed the mother of Xavier Duke.

Death notifications were a bitch.

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