Take Me Home Tonight by Morgan Matson
Author:Morgan Matson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 2021-05-04T00:00:00+00:00
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I knocked on the door and looked at Cary. We were in another walk-up, this one on Sixty-Seventh. âMaverick Cleaners,â I called. Cary gave me tiny golf claps. Nicely done, he mouthed.
The door was flung open, and a woman in her thirties was standing there, wearing a black dress and a fur stole. âAnd who are you claiming to be?â she asked, arching an eyebrow, looking from me to Cary.
âMaverick⦠Cleaners?â I repeated, wondering if I hadnât said it loud enough the first time.
âRight, totally,â she said with a wink. âCleaners. Sure. So what can you tell me about the disappearance of Murgatroyd?â
âThe⦠who?â I asked.
âNothing,â a guy said, hurrying up behind her. He was wearing a suit, and a monocle on a chain. The monocle bounced out when he reached us, and he put it back. âTheyâre just dropping off the laundry, Diya.â
âUh-huh,â she said, giving us a look like we were in on the joke. âSure. Laundry. Clearly they have information, unlessââshe drew in a sharp breathââtheyâre also suspects!â Her eyes darted from me to Cary. âThis changes everything.â
I glanced at Cary. âI donât understand.â
âWeâre doing a murder mystery night,â the guy explained to us as his monocle bounced out again. Heâd opened the door a little wider, and I could see that there was a group of people, all dressed up, standing around in little clusters with drinks, and what appeared to be a dead body on the floor, lying in a pool of blood.
âThat would explain the corpse,â Cary said, sounding relieved. He handed over the dry cleaning. âLaundry will be ready Monday.â
âThanks so much.â
âActually?â The corpse sat up and looked toward us. Someone had done what looked like a very realistic bullet hole in the center of her forehead. âCan you see if they can have it by tomorrow?â
âIâll ask,â Cary called.
She gave him a cheerful thumbs-up, then lay down again, her eyes going glassy and head lolling to the side.
âThanks a lot,â monocle guy said. He started to close the door.
âBut he has to be part of this,â I heard Diya say as the door closed. âWho delivers laundry at night dressed like a fighter pilot?â
âItâs not an unreasonable question,â I pointed out, and Cary laughed.
The last building included an apartment with a silent DJ, everyone dancing to music only they could hear; a studio in which a man slipped Cary a twenty if he could wreck his husbandâs sweater because he hated it and it was causing them to get into fights; and an apartment in which four children were running around and screaming and their parents, who looked like zombies, all the fight taken out of them, listlessly took their clothes from Cary and shuffled back inside. Iâd shuddered as that door had closed. Why would you have four children if you lived in Manhattan? Or for that matter, period?
While we walked back to Maverick Cleaners, Cary texted his uncle for an update, but they were still stuck in Pennsylvania, and clearly not coming home anytime soon.
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