Sea-Devil: A Delilah Duffy Mystery by Sherry Jessica

Author:Sherry, Jessica [Sherry, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Jessica Sherry
Published: 2015-07-24T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-Eight

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“It’s thrilling to see you again, Ms. Duffy,” Detective Harlan Lewis said as I approached his gray cubicle. He shook my hand, but didn’t smile. “I appreciate you meeting me like this.”

“Did I have a choice?” I replied, sitting down in my familiar seat.

“Thanks for alerting Officer Teague to the snake rake,” he continued. “We’re a small department here. A handful of detectives, patrol officers. All of our crime scene techs are laypeople. That’s the way it is with small town departments. You use what you can. Our crime scene photographer works for the local paper. Our coroner is also our town doctor. Our evidence collection guys are only part time. They’re all trained, mind you. But, they aren’t policemen, like the rest of us.”

“Why are you telling me this?”

“Evidence can sometimes get overlooked,” he admitted, “especially by laypeople.”

“I’m a layperson,” I reminded him.

“At any rate, I’m sure your uncle doesn’t have to hear about our oversight.” Lewis shuffled in his rolling chair and grabbed his pencil. “Thank you for being so observant. If witnesses could just be more observant, like you, well, it’d make my job a whole helluva lot easier. Just like with them damn granny bandits. Part of the reason they’ve been so hard to catch is because the victims didn’t even realize they’d been robbed-”

“How could they not know they’d been robbed?”

Lewis shrugged and leaned forward. “No forced entry. Nothing outta place. Always specific items taken, and unless those things were in plain sight, owners just didn’t notice right away. Not everyone checks on their pearls and old coin collections every time they walk in the door. They’re ghosts, but I’m hot on their trail. They’ve gotten sloppy, expanded their take. Won’t be long now.”

“Well, anyways, I hope this means that you can move past me as a suspect and give your attention to real leads. You’ve already wasted-”

“Let’s not get ahead of ourselves, Ms. Duffy,” Lewis stopped me. “I’m still waiting to get that information from Mr. Dekker, and I’ve put in a call to your former principal as well.”

“Knock yourself out,” I returned, though my stomach twisted into knots.

Lewis went on to ask some questions about the would-be intruder, the snake rake, and events surrounding the discovery. I answered diligently, and went on to tell him what I had learned about Darryl Chambers from his coach and English teacher. He jotted down notes, but said little.

Seeing that I hadn’t impressed him much, I added, “Megan Masters tells me that Darryl tried to buy a house. He said he had a large cash down payment to put on it. Maybe you should look into his money-”

“I’d really rather you didn’t try to involve yourself in this case, Ms. Duffy,” Lewis remarked after he’d written what he wanted. “Folks tend to watch a lot of TV these days, have illusions of grandeur about their abilities, and wind up at best wasting their time and at worst wasting my time.”

“Teague’s already had this talk with me,” I noted with irritation.

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