The Time for Murder is Meow by T. C. LoTempio

Author:T. C. LoTempio
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Published: 2019-07-16T15:12:49+00:00

• Fifteen •

“Oh, this is so exciting. I feel like I’m a character on one of your Spy Anyone episodes!”

After Josh had left I called Olivia and asked her to bring Rita and Ron over to my house pronto for a powwow on how to proceed with our “investigation.” They were all thrilled and a bit speechless too, when they found Gary there. Olivia in particular. She spent most of our little meeting staring at Gary’s fabulous thick head of hair.

“This isn’t television,” Gary said in a stern tone, although the half smile he shot Olivia was, I was sure, intended to take the sting out of his words. “This is reality, and one of these people is trying to frame Shell for a crime she didn’t commit. We have to help Detective Bloodgood by narrowing the suspect pool.”

I’d abandoned my notebook idea and instead dragged the whiteboard out from the den and set it up in the parlor. Gary had drawn boxes with each suspect’s name in it, and arrows pointing to the center box which read: Victim: Amelia Witherspoon. Under each suspect’s name he’d printed a possible motive. Now he stood in front of it, pointing to each box with the tip of a ruler, like someone teaching Criminology 101.

“Let’s look at each one logically,” he said and pointed to the first box. “Lawrence Peabody. He consistently voted with Amelia on museum matters. Did Amelia have something on him to buy his loyalty? Ditto his friend, Andy McHardy.” Gary tapped the second box. “Shell heard him saying ‘it’ couldn’t go on. What, exactly? Why did these two constantly side with Amelia?”

I stepped up to tap at the third box. “Ginnifer Rubin seemed very nervous when I confronted her. She said she’d talk to Amelia, but I could just feel the fear emanating from her. It was quite a different feeling than the one I got from Garrett Knute.” I pointed at the fourth box. “Even though he acted as if Amelia had no hold on him, that argument I witnessed over the envelope suggests otherwise.”

Ron squinted at the board, then pointed. “You’ve got Quentin Watson on there?”

“Why not?” Olivia leaned back and tucked her knees under her. “He’s a despicable character who delights in dishing out dirt on people. Who knows, maybe he had something on Amelia. We know he dislikes Shell. Maybe he wrote that note to deliberately incriminate her.”

“Right. Then there are others with murkier motives.” Gary pointed to the boxes on the bottom. “Londra Lewis. Shell saw her arguing with Amelia in the park. We’ve yet to determine over what or just how deep that hatred runs. And over here, we’ve got the three longshots. Mazie Madison, Mayor Hart, and Melvin Feller.”

Rita wiggled her fingers. “I know why Mazie and the mayor are on the board, but Feller? I double checked with Frank like you asked me to, Shell, and he couldn’t recall Melvin ever even meeting Amelia.”

“He’s on there because Garrett Knute told Josh that Melvin would be his choice of a number-one suspect.

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