A Haunting of Ghosts by Edward Kendrick

Author:Edward Kendrick [Kendrick, Edward]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-26T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

Van and Gene decided to take Friday for themselves and explore the area around the barn and beyond. Thus, a couple of hours after they started out, they were wandering through a small town several miles from where they’d begun. When they passed a diner, Van saw a TV through the window. He would have ignored it if his and Gene’s photos weren’t on the screen behind the anchorwoman.

He pointed it out to Gene and they drifted in through the window, arriving in time to hear the woman say, “With the arrest of James Oliver for their murder, the police have officially closed the case. According to Gene Norton’s parents, there will be a combined memorial service for the men a week from today in Mr. Norton’s hometown.”

“How do you rate?” Van asked, shaking his head.

“You know my folks. It’s their way or the highway.”

“Yeah. No kidding. Do we want to go to it?”

“I don’t,” Gene replied adamantly. He chuckled. “It could be fun if we could show ourselves and scare the bejesus out of Mother and Dad, but that’s not happening. Besides which, how would we get there? I don’t think our flying skills are up to it.”

“Sneak on a plane?” Van said as they drifted out of the diner. “Possible, probably, but I’m with you. The last thing I want to do is listen to people we barely know extolling our virtues because we were famous—” he made finger quotes, “—authors whose books they probably never read.”

“I bet by this time every bookstore that carries them had jacked up the price because we’re dead.”

“Naw,” Van said. “That only happens with artists. Unless, of course, they have some of the books we autographed during one of our tours. Then, yeah, they’re making a fortune off them.”

“And we don’t get a cent. Bummer.”

Putting his arm around Gene, Van replied, “What would we do with the money anyway, at this point? We don’t eat, or drink. We can’t go out carousing. Well, we could, but what fun would that be?”

“Got me, since we never did it to begin with. ‘Homebodies were us’ except for the occasional movie or art show.” He chuckled. “And now, we don’t even have to pay to go to movie.”

“The one perk to what we are, I suppose,” Van said somewhat morosely.

“There is at least one other. We have friends now who like us for ourselves, not because we’re semi-famous. I’ll take that over the sycophants any day.”

Van smiled, stopping to kiss him. “Yeah, me, too. So let’s get back home and find out what mischief they’re up to. Tomorrow, we’ll see what we can learn about Jon’s murder, and take it from there.”

* * * *

Mike had been as good as his word. Before leaving work on Friday, he retrieved Gene and Van’s laptops and phones from the forensics investigator who had gone through them. The man hadn’t found anything on them relating to the murders, so they didn’t need to be kept as evidence. He had no problem with Mike ostensibly returning them to where he’d gotten them.

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