Star Struck: A Private Eye To The Stars Cozy Mystery (The Private Eye to the Stars Cozy Mysteries Book 2) by Monica Knightley

Author:Monica Knightley [Knightley, Monica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-08-22T16:00:00+00:00

12

Somehow, Peggy beat me back to the office. Knowing her, though, she probably has some kind of sophisticated tech device that keeps her out of heavy traffic.

She was on the phone with one of the hotels on the strip. It sounded like they were haggling over whether or not they could give out such information.

I got Ma a bottle of water, settled her in a comfortable chair in my office, and returned to Peggy.

PB walked in and listened to Peggy’s call.

“Giving her the usual runaround, huh?”

“Seems so,” I agreed.

We stood together until she was off the call.

“They all been like that?” he asked Peggy.

“I’ve only been here long enough to make a few calls, but yeah, they’ve all fought me on it.”

“You’re using my name and credentials, right?” I asked her.

“Do I look like this is my first rodeo?” So much snark. “I’ve even told them that I have to reach him due to a family emergency. These hotel employees must really have it drilled into them that they have to protect the guests’ privacy at all costs.”

“Peg, you can only do what you can do,” I said. “Keep going at it, and maybe you’ll luck out. At this point this is about the only thing we can do.”

“Hashtags,” PB mumbled.

“Oh…hashtags. Yes.” I beamed.

“Yep. We should start checking them on all the major social media sites. People who see famous people out in the wild love to post photos and then use the hashtag with the celeb’s name. Let’s get checking hashtag Chase Corbin. Maybe there’ll be some posts of Chase and they will probably have some kind of cues as to where he is.”

“Brilliant, PB. I’ll take TweetyBird and you do FacePlant.”

“Got it.”

We disappeared into our offices.

Before starting the TweetyBird search, I took the opportunity to update Ballard on the investigation. He grumbled rather loudly when I shared that we didn’t have a strong lead yet, but he didn’t use any expletives. I counted this as another win.

Then I did a TweetyBird search for hashtag ChaseCorbin and came up with thousands of hits.

Staring at the computer screen, I slumped in my chair.

The hits were sorted chronologically, with the most recent displayed first. But one day’s worth of posts equaled several hundred, at the very least.

Many posts were shots of him from various movies he’d been in. But every now and then, there was a post of him out in the world. The first one I found showed a young man wearing a hoodie with the hood up, dark sunglasses, and his head facing down. Nothing in the photo made me think it could be Chase, and yet this fan wrote in all caps, shouting to the world that she’d seen Chase outside her favorite coffee shop. In Clarkston, Washington.

Right.

Highly doubtful.

I scrolled what felt like miles without finding anything posted that day that was of any use.

And in the back of my head, I could hear the clock ticking away.

Forty-five minutes went by without finding anything helpful, and without a peep from PB, either.

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