A Killer Maize (A Farmers' Market Mystery) by Shelton Paige

Author:Shelton, Paige [Shelton, Paige]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 2012-12-03T16:00:00+00:00

Twelve

The emergency crews arrived only a few moments later, but it was Lucy who seemed to do the most good. She calmed the coaster riders so they stopped trying to climb out of the cars before it was safe to do so. She took over the controls of the machine, too, and before long brought in the two cars that had passed the break. Then she backed up the other car so that the riders who hadn’t hit the break yet could also disembark. She was amazing.

No one was hurt. No one was even scratched. Some had to be treated for mild shock, but no one seemed to have sustained any long-term injury. I think everyone was surprised at how lucky we’d been.

If the death by Ferris wheel hadn’t been enough, the faulty roller coaster tracks were the final straw. The fair was officially shut down, not to reopen for the rest of this year or probably ever, or at least that’s what I heard. The corn maze could open, but if the authorities had their way, no one would ever again ride a ride on those grounds. The police asked everyone to exit the park, after they were briefly questioned, and to stay or come back only if they worked at the fair and had to gather their things.

In a hurried, haphazard way, we were questioned, in groups mostly. It wasn’t as thorough an investigation as Sam would have liked, I suspected, but I could tell the police wanted to get everyone out of there as quickly as possible.

The main rides weren’t the pack-and-go kind, and though the game and food trailers were only temporary installations, some of them required more than a quick hookup to a truck to leave the premises.

As I walked around to see if anyone needed my help, I suddenly remembered something I wished I hadn’t remembered.

There was a time that I might not have minded turning Scott in to the authorities if I thought he’d done something illegal. In fact, there were times I was so angry at his immature behavior, I wished I hadn’t met him at all; this attitude had probably contributed to the divorce.

I wasn’t sure if my sense of loyalty to him had grown in the years since we’d parted or if the changes in his behavior made me more sympathetic to him, or maybe it was because he was now a family man, but I hesitated strongly when I thought about telling Sam what I’d seen in the files at the shooting gallery.

As I watched a cotton-candy vendor clean out her bin of sugar, it occurred to me that the sketches I’d seen hadn’t been merely interesting, they might also have been more telling than I wanted them to be. I couldn’t be sure, but I thought the big arrow drawn on the roller coaster schematic had pointed to the exact spot where the track had broken.

It was a damning piece of evidence, if I was remembering it correctly. I had no doubt it would lead the cops to suspect Scott of attempted murder.

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