The Halloween Haunting: A Cozy Mystery (A Tess and Tilly Cozy Mystery Book 7) by Kathi Daley

Author:Kathi Daley [Daley, Kathi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kathi Daley Books
Published: 2019-09-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Thursday, October 24

Mike had spoken to Grange, and he’d assured Mike that he hadn’t been anywhere near the house on Tuesday evening. He had been at the bowling alley with the other men who participated in his league, so Mike was inclined to believe him. The odd thing was that when Mike suggested that perhaps he’d left the hat at the house when he’d been there to do repairs, he’d informed Mike that he hadn’t been wearing the hat and, in fact, never wore a hat since his hair was so thick that hats never fit right. He’d also said that the hats had been distributed as a promotion a couple of years before and there were quite a few people in town who still wore them. Too many in fact, he assured Mike, to really consider the hat to be a clue as to who may have been lurking around inside the house on Tuesday night or any other night for that matter.

Tony was coming home this afternoon. He’d called me last night to tell me that while the skeleton we’d found in the secret room could very well have belonged to Edward Vandenberg based on height, he had no way of knowing for certain that the skeleton had been Edward since he’d been a man of average height, not a man who’d been statistically tall or short. Tony decided to leave the bones behind since his friend agreed to continue his investigation, while Tony came back to White Eagle to dig around on the computer in the hope of finding a mention of when and where Edward Vandenberg might have died or perhaps where he might have been buried. Tony figured if we could find a death certificate or burial site, then we could probably eliminate him as a possible identity for the skeleton found behind the wall.

“Morning, Hattie,” I greeted the owner of Hattie’s Bakeshop as I began my route, which I’d started early in the hope of finishing early and having more time to spend with Tony once he got back. “Something smells wonderful.”

Hattie handed Tilly a dog cookie. “I have both pumpkin spice and cinnamon apple muffins in the oven, and my apple popovers have just come out. Would you like one with a cup of coffee?”

“Normally, I would, but I’m in a bit of a rush today. Tony is coming home, and I want to get my route done early.”

“Did he figure out who that skeleton belongs to?” Hattie asked. I’d spoken to her about the secret room and the skeleton we’d found during a visit the previous week.

“No. So far, they haven’t found anything that would eliminate Ethel’s father, Edward, as a potential identity, but they haven’t found anything that would definitively prove that the skeleton belonged to the man either. Given the fact that Ethel lived in the house when the body was placed in the room, and the fact that her father seems to have simply disappeared, my money is

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