The Case of the Haunted Hotel: Ghostly Glenwood Mysteries Paranormal Cozy Mystery by B I Skinner

Author:B I Skinner [Skinner, B I]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Felix the Cat Rocks
Published: 2022-05-22T16:00:00+00:00

15

The following morning, when I’m in the kitchen making breakfast, I hear Mystery shout, “Hide! It’s the popo!”

“What?” I exclaim as she streaks through the kitchen, running out the back door. Then I’m surprised to hear pounding on the front door. What the heck is going on? I go to the door, but I’m not happy when I see Sheriff Mack on the porch.

“Good morning,” I tell him with forced cheerfulness as I let him inside.

“Ms. Daniel,” he says curtly. “Can we talk?”

“Of course. Come in. Would you like some coffee?”

“No thanks, it will only take a moment.”

This should be fun.

“Word has it you’re investigating the stolen tiara case.”

“I’ve had casual conversations about it. Like pretty much everyone else in town.”

“You and I both know they’re more than casual conversations. I hear that you’ve been talking to the, er, employees at the hotel.”

I pinch my lips together at him. I’m annoyed at the obvious implication.

“Like I said, everyone is talking about it. You can’t go anywhere in this town right now without overhearing conversations.”

“You also had a lengthy conversation with Ronald Thurman about how a person could sell the tiara if they just happened to find it in their possession.”

I nearly blurt out who told you? Did Thurman rat us out? Or did someone in the coffee shop overhear us?

He continues. “What I can’t decide is, does this make you just nosy or perhaps suspicious?” He folds his arms across his chest and takes a broader stance with his feet to show me he isn’t planning to budge until he gets answers.

“If you’re interfering in an investigation because you fancy yourself as some modern-day Nancy Drew, I’ll warn you I can charge you with interference. And if you had something to do with the actual heist, I can take you in for questioning. So, tell me, Ms. Daniel, which is it?”

Any thoughts I may have had about potentially sharing what I know with him just went right out the window. And it’s not that I’m worried about getting in trouble. I just don’t like the guy.

Ambrose is right. I should keep what I know to myself. If Sheriff Mack wants answers, he can get them on his own, just like I had to. Granted, there’s the small detail that he can’t talk to ghosts like I can, but that’s his problem.

I look on in horror when Clara suddenly appears looking up at the sheriff in admiration. She’s standing so close she’s practically hugging him. I watch him shiver involuntarily as she slides her hand down his arm, and I can’t decide if I should laugh or scold her. Either response might earn me a trip to the sheriff’s station.

“I already told you, I was driving through Oklahoma when the tiara was stolen. I was nowhere near Glenwood.”

“So, you’re interfering in an investigation.”

“There’s no law against my discussing the news with friends.”

“You’re friends with a retired jewel thief who happens to be an FBI consultant?” I watch him pause before what he obviously thinks is him moving in for the kill.

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