Purrfect Double by Nic Saint

Author:Nic Saint [Saint, Nic]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Puss in Books
Published: 2021-09-22T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Even though Cotton had pretty much dumped his wife like one does a pair of old socks, Dawn Karat hadn’t suffered financially in the divorce, as the big pile where she lived proved. It wasn’t as grand as Pop Karat’s place, but it was nothing to be sniffed at either.

The former Mrs. Cotton Karat received us in what she called her library, though I didn’t see a lot of books in evidence. Instead the shelves were loaded with DVDs.

I saw that Dawn still hadn’t lost those thirty pounds, and probably had gained another thirty since the divorce, but she was still a handsome woman. She was dressed in a colorful flowing kaftan and was wearing a silk scarf around her head. Shiny gold earrings peeped from beneath the scarf, and she looked as healthy as she did happy.

In fact it wasn’t too much to say the woman was absolutely radiant.

“So they cut out his liver and shipped it off to his own office, did they?” she asked. “How ghastly!” But her beaming smile belied her words. “How absolutely ghoulish.”

“Where were you last night between ten and midnight, Mrs. Karat?” asked Chase. But if he’d hoped to put a dent in the woman’s sheer delight, he was disappointed.

“I was right here, of course. A real homebody, me.”

“Can anyone vouch for you?”

“My daughter, and a brace of servants. In fact Inari and I watched one of our favorite movies last night. Bedazzled! You know, about the man who sells his soul to the devil.” She winked. “Remind you of someone?”

“If you’re referring to your ex-husband…”

“Of course! Though in his case he couldn’t sell his soul since he never had one to begin with. Or a heart, for that matter. Oh, there you are, sweetie. These people are from the police. They’ve come to question us about that gruesome murder.”

A young woman had entered the room, looking a lot like her mother. Though she wasn’t dressed in a kaftan but simple ripped jeans and a sweater. Her hair hung loose around her shoulders and she wore no makeup to speak of. She was pretty enough to pull it off. Not supermodel pretty, but beautiful in a wholesome way. She took a seat next to her mom, toed off her sneakers and sat cross-legged. “So was it really Dad they tried to kill?”

“Absolutely!” said her mother. “The man who died was pretending to be your dad, wasn’t he?”

“Will he be all right?” asked the young woman. “Dad, I mean. Is he being protected?”

“He’s fine,” Dawn assured her. “They’re not going to let another madman near him now, are they?” There was a touch of wistfulness in her voice. “The policeman just asked me where I was last night.”

“Here,” said Inari immediately. “We were watching Bedazzled.”

“Inari is studying to be a film director,” Dawn explained. “So we’ve been watching a lot of movies together, haven’t we, darling?”

Inari nodded, and chewed a thoughtful fingernail. “So was it the duck people who killed that man? Did you arrest them?”

“The investigation is ongoing,” said Chase.

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