Spelling Murder: A Witch and Kitten Cozy Mystery (Itty Bitty Kitty Magic Mysteries Book 3) by Corrine Winters

Author:Corrine Winters [Winters, Corrine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-10-05T23:00:00+00:00

Nineteen

Netta was manning the counter at the Octopus Inn when Danny called her.

“Hi, Danny. What’s going on?” she asked.

“Hi, Netta. I have a favor to ask you. I need you to talk to Morris for me,” Danny said.

“Okay, why?” Netta asked.

“Before she died, Maddie filed an assault charge against Morris. I found a police report from the night that Maddie died, albeit much earlier that evening. They argued and he pushed her. The report said that he had asked her to go out with him and when she refused, he got physical.

“I tried to talk to him, but he wouldn’t tell me anything. I was wondering if you would talk to him and ask him where he was later that night, when Maddie was killed,” Danny said.

“I can do that. I already knew about him pushing her. He told me about that,” Netta said.

Later that morning, Netta headed to the botanical gardens and found Morris in his office completing some paperwork.

“Can we talk?” Netta asked.

“Sure, what’s up?” Morris said.

“You know that Maddie was a dear friend of mine. I just want to know the truth about what happened,” Netta said.

A sad look crossed Morris’ face and he nodded.

“Can you help me?” Netta asked, gently.

After a long silence, Morris spoke quietly.

“Maddie told me that she was going to call the police after I pushed her. I left and went out of town to visit some friends. We went to a bar and got drunk. I just stayed the night with them. I was so drunk that I was blacking out, so there was no way that I could drive home.”

Morris wrote down the names of his friends and the bar that they had gone to.

“Why didn’t you just give all of this information to Danny?” she asked.

“I was so embarrassed for pushing her. I can’t believe that I lost my temper like that. I guess I just figured that I deserved to be punished,” Morris said, sounding miserable.

“You know, everyone loses their temper every once in a while. I think that you have punished yourself enough,” Netta said.

Netta’s gut feeling was that Morris was telling the truth and that he didn’t murder Maddie. He wore his guilt for pushing her on his sleeve like a neon sign. If he had killed her, Netta thought that it would be obvious. Plus, Morris’ anger was a “flash” anger, not something that he thought about doing.

Still, to make it official, she stopped by the station to give Danny the information that Morris had written down. He thanked her for her help and said he would let her know what he found out.

She went to the grocery store and headed back to the inn, and Danny called her. Everything he said, checked out. The time frame that Morris’ friends gave, as well as what the bartender said, indicated that he would have had to be on the road while Maddie was making her report to the police.

Morris was in the clear.

That made Netta happy because she rather liked Morris, and would have hated to know that he was the one who had killed Maddie.

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