Too Familiar by Carolyn Haines

Author:Carolyn Haines [Haines, Carolyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: KaliOka Press
Published: 2017-05-08T04:00:00+00:00

11

It’s time someone took things in hand around here and found some answers. Lancelot is down the mountain, and Miss Locks has gone off the deep end with this television idea. Geez! Humans are such creatures of emotion. If I understood the conversation I just heard, Running Stream and Cassandra both think Bounder is involved in the murders—by choice or happenstance. Now, let me put my thinking cap on and assume the pose of E. A. Poe’s inspector in my favorite, Murders in the Rue Morgue. Excellent title. Macabre twist. Those French have such wonderful street names.

I must have been an expatriate writer in a past life. Paris promises so many exciting things. Clotilde, the little calico feline who holds my heart, had a bit of Parisian blood. No, she wasn’t longhaired and prissy. Not Persian, Parisian. Her great-great-great-great-great-grandmother was an immigrant. Clotilde had that bit of French... chic. It was in the way she held her tail when she walked. Elegant, yet a tease. Ah, Clotilde.

Anyway, back to Poe. Inspector Dupin knew the difference between inductive and deductive reasoning. Now think back with me. The earring is, of course, the crux. Both earrings. Why would Bounder find an earring with Adam if he intended to keep his involvement secret? This is the part that doesn’t fit. I mean, Bounder didn’t have to find that earring in the mud. He could have ignored it. Why find something that would be better to be lost?

How did Bounder get the second earring? My conclusion or I should say that I deduce that if Bounder’s friends are up to criminal behavior, he didn’t know in the beginning.

Before you clap me on the back in congratulations, consider the implications. If Bounder is missing now, then he might be in danger. That is, if he found the earring in the possession of his two Indian friends, he might have found more than he should have. Another possibility is that he found the earring somewhere else. So where?

He had it the night he was watching this house—another example of behavior that could be interpreted a number of ways. Was he protecting or plotting? If he is a psychotic killer, my normal feline instincts might not detect it. I can sniff out bad guys sometimes, but the psychotics are impossible. They don’t reek of guilt. It’s a frightening thought. I remember how gentle Bounder’s hands were when he stroked me. Once again, evidence that is either very good or very bad. Gentle. Tender. Sensitive... Abnormal. Geez. I need a bit of fresh air.

The thing to do is go back to the bushes where Bounder was hiding. Maybe I can detect something there, some lingering odor or emotion. I’ve got a lot on my mind, too. I was thinking—if I could get on television with Cassandra, Peter or Eleanor might see me. It’s a slim chance. Martin West’s show isn’t nationally syndicated, but it might play on some of the cables. If Eleanor is as sick as I think she is, maybe she’s watching television.

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