With His Dying Breath by Nancy Hogue

Author:Nancy Hogue [Hogue, Nancy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Mystery, Retail
Amazon: B007PUVNJ0
Publisher: NKH
Published: 2013-11-21T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Monday, March 19, 5 a.m.

For once, I’m glad today is Monday, Hilda thought, as she stumbled to the kitchen to make a pot of coffee almost tripping over her cat’s food dish. Sunday was wasted as far as detective work went. Neither she nor Jasper could get in touch with anyone. \

The meeting with Cain Matthews went well, she thought. Although, there are twice as many questions now. She may not have given the meeting about the clues as much attention as she should have. How does the Jonas Attaway character fit into the fire she kept asking herself? She needed to hear the 911 call on the bomb threat. That wasn’t her case but she needed to hear the voice behind the call. “All of this is tied together, I just know it,” she said to her elderly cat as she poured out more food.

Today she would reach Lois about the bowtie, the Jonses, the Youngs and the, uh, the vet about the dog, she asked herself. No one could be reached on Sunday.

Hilda waved to her precious tabby at the window and backed out of her garage at five forty-five heading for the office. She was aware of the stranger watching her from behind a neighbor’s car. While appearing to be on a regular patrol, another police nabbed the lurker, put him in handcuffs and into the backseat of the police car. Hilda had noticed him as she picked up her morning paper and again from the kitchen sink and called it in.

“Okay, guys, thanks, let me know what you get out of him,” she said and headed out for the station.

The day was crisp with shallow ground fog moving across the river. She made a mental comparison that the murder’s identify was obscured in a fog bank. Tuning into the early morning news shows, she prepared her to do list.

At nine fifteen, she checked the first item off her list. A vet in a nearby town reported that a client brought in a basset hound with a cut foot. In fact, they had just left about fifteen minutes ago. At least the client thought he was injured because of the blood. After an examination, he found one foot had dried blood in the toes and the other had dried blood on the pads. The vet found nothing, no glass, no thorn, and no broken skin. He deduced the dog had caught a rabbit or something in his back yard not suspecting human blood.

“Looks like him to me,” the vet said about a photo of Jonas Attaway’s basset hound.

Next was to visit the dog’s owners in Barnesville. He gave Hilda their address knowing the couple would not mind. I hope they drove home, she mumbled.

Hilda pulled into the drive and could see the basset hound at the fence gate. He is a pretty dog and so friendly. Be easy for someone to load him up and take it somewhere. The owners expected Hilda after a call from the vet and invited her inside.

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