Stork Raving Mad: A Meg Langslow Mystery (A Meg Lanslow Mystery) by Andrews Donna

Author:Andrews, Donna [Andrews, Donna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781429906944
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2010-06-28T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

I studied the page on digitalis. Sounded authentic—not that I was an expert, but since Dad was not only a doctor but also an avid reader of mysteries, I’d managed to pick up a fair amount of normally useless trivia about poisons. Even better, the page was from the Web site of a major medical school. And it gave fairly specific information on clinical and toxic doses. Anyone with half a brain could probably figure out how many of Señor Mendoza’s little heart pills it would take to make sure Dr. Wright wouldn’t survive to meet with Ramon’s dissertation committee.

“Danny was looking at this?” I asked.

“Either Danny or someone he was letting use his computer,” Josh said.

“And was he letting anyone else use his computer?”

“Only Bron, that I saw,” Josh said. “Of course, the other students living in the house are always coming down trying to cadge a little computer time, and not all the guys are careful about password-protecting their machines. But Danny’s more careful than most—more paranoid, maybe. And his desk is the farthest from the stairs, so not as many people go all that way to mess with it.”

“Probably Bron or Danny, then,” I said.

“Not that you could prove it in court,” he said. “But yeah.”

I studied the evidence. Pretty damning. But was it maybe a little too damning, not to mention awfully convenient? After all, if Bron or Danny were planning on killing Dr. Wright with Señor Mendoza’s heart medicine, it would be fairly stupid to leave a page like this open. Even if they hadn’t left it open and Josh had found it by looking at the computer’s history, there were ways of wiping that kind of information trail clean. Even I know that, so wouldn’t a cyber-savvy killer know it?

Then again, Danny seemed a pretty unlikely killer, and I had no idea how tech-savvy Bronwyn was. It was possible that one or the other had not realized that someone like Josh would be checking up behind them.

And also possible that Josh had planted the evidence. He’d been here the whole time, too. I didn’t know what grudge he could have against Dr. Wright, but that didn’t mean he couldn’t have one. If he had killed Dr. Wright and wanted to divert suspicion from himself, what better way to do it than to show me this page and claim Bron or Danny had been looking at it? Even if he wasn’t the killer, what if he had it in for Bron and Danny and wanted to cast suspicion on them?

“Of course, you probably don’t want to take my word for it,” Josh said. “For all you know, I could be the one who was looking at the digitalis information.”

Was the man a mind reader? Or had my sudden flash of doubt been all too visible on my face?

“I’ll keep that in mind,” I said. “You might want to tell the chief about this.”

“I only just found it a few minutes ago,” he said. “You think he’d be interested?”

I nodded.

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