Vampires, Bones and Treacle Scones by Kaitlyn Dunnett

Author:Kaitlyn Dunnett [Dunnett, Kaitlyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2013-06-07T16:00:00+00:00

“Every time I think I’m going to find answers, I end up with more questions,” Liss complained to Sherri the next day.

“I don’t know what you think you’re going to find out here,” Sherri grumbled as the two of them entered the kitchen at the Chadwick mansion. “We’ve been keeping an eye on the place. There’s been no indication that anyone has been out here since we investigated those holes dug in the basement floor.”

“I’m sure you’re right, but I still want to go through the place one last time.” Liss placed the blueprints she’d brought with her on the dinette table and unrolled them. “Ned got that cash somewhere. Seventeen thousand eight hundred dollars all told. Maybe that’s not much by today’s standards, but it was a heck of a lot back in Blackie O’Hare’s day.”

“How can you be sure Ned didn’t sell a car? That’s what he told the bank manager. Maybe it was the truth.”

“Three times? One car for each deposit? I don’t think so.”

“All right, then. The next logical supposition is that he helped himself to some of the antiques scattered around this mausoleum and pawned them.” Sherri sent a pointed look toward the door that led to the rest of the house. “I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again—who’d miss a few?”

“It’s possible Ned stole items from the mansion. Certainly more likely than Boxer having done so. But I’m positive that Ned did not own a car when he got out of jail. He had to sell the one he used to own, along with just about everything else of value, to pay his lawyer. Even so, Margaret ended up footing most of the bill.”

“Yet he was driving a car in the bank’s security footage. And it’s unlikely that he walked all the way to Moosetookalook from the state lockup.”

“You’re not telling me anything I haven’t already thought of. But you see what I mean about more questions? There’s another one—did he hitchhike? Or did someone know he was getting out and pick him up?” Liss peeled off the floor plan for the attic. “I want to compare these blueprints to what’s actually here. If there was one hidden room, there could be another. We stopped looking after we found the tunnel. Maybe we also stopped too soon once we located the room behind the linen closet.”

With dragging feet, Sherri trailed after her up two flights of stairs. They investigated each room on the attic level. Liss looked in particular for loose floorboards that might conceal a space large enough to hide stacks of hundred dollar bills. She even climbed up to the room at the top of the tower to tap on floors and walls in search of a hollow hidey-hole.

They repeated the process on the second floor.

“We aren’t going to find anything,” Sherri said when they finished searching the last bedroom and came up empty again. “There are other ways Ned could have gotten that much money in cash. I’m still leaning toward fencing stolen antiques.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.