Retirement Can Be Murder (Every Wife Has A Story) (Baby Boomer Mysteries) by Susan Santangelo

Author:Susan Santangelo [Santangelo, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Baby Boomer Mysteries Press
Published: 2011-01-23T05:00:00+00:00

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Chapter 18

Q: Why are retirees so slow to clean out the basement, attic, and garage?

A: They know that as soon as they do, one of their adult kids will want to store stuff there.

I’ve read in all my mysteries that poison is a woman’s favorite murder weapon. Less messy than guns or knives. Yuck. There was a least one person in Rhodes’s life who had a dandy motive to bump him off. No, make that two: his wife, and dear Sheila. But not My Beloved. No way.

“I don’t know if anyone else knows about this yet,” Jenny said. “Mark wouldn’t have told me anything except, of course, I was sitting right there when he got the call. He reacted so strongly I just knew it was about Rhodes. But he warned me to keep the new information to myself.

“Mark admitted Dad would be questioned again. The police have to examine all the possibilities since it looks like Rhodes was poisoned.”

I noticed that Jenny shied away from using the word “murdered.” But I knew she was thinking it. Me too.

I decided to share my afternoon’s adventure with Jenny. She’s tolerated my insatiable curiosity for years, unless I’m snooping into her personal life, of course. “We’ll have to tell Dad about this when he gets home.

“In the meantime, let’s talk about something else. I’ve decided to plan a retirement shower for Mary Alice at Maria’s Trattoria….”

Jenny held up her hand and stopped me in mid-sentence. “Wait. I think I’ve missed something here. Mary Alice is leaving the hospital?

When did she decide that?”

“With everything else going on around here, I forgot to tell you. Mary Alice is retiring at the end of the summer. But she’s going to do private duty nursing and some consulting, so she’ll still be connected to the hospital. She made her big announcement the same day that the police came to interview me about Rhodes’s death.

“Anyway, I’m planning a party for Mary Alice at the Trattoria, and while I was meeting with Maria Lesco today, I got some real dirt on Davis Rhodes. Maria told me Rhodes was a regular customer at the restaurant, and the staff couldn’t stand him. He was unbelievably rude to everyone who worked there.

“Maria also told me that one night he’d brought a woman named Grace to dinner. Their waitress overheard some of their conversation, and figured out that Grace was Rhodes’s wife. The waitress told Maria it wasn’t a friendly dinner at all. And Grace called Rhodes ‘Dick,’ not

‘Dave’ or ‘Davis’. How about that?”

“Wow, Mom. I’m impressed that you got Miss Lesco to give you all this info. Way to go. But what does it mean?”

“I know I could be jumping to conclusions,” I replied, “but it dawned on me after I talked to Maria that ‘Davis Rhodes’ may have been an assumed name. I called Nancy to see if Rhodes or his wife had been involved in any local property transactions.”

I gave Jenny a moment to be

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