Alex Delaware - 06 - Private Eyes by Jonathan Kellerman

Author:Jonathan Kellerman
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Thriller
ISBN: 9780345463746
Published: 2003-05-20T05:00:00+00:00

Back in the Porsche, he said, “Looks like little Melissa may have been wrong about Stepdaddy’s intentions.”

“True love?” I said. “Yet they don’t sleep together.”

Shrug. “Maybe Ramp loves her for the purity of her soul.”

“Or maybe he intends one day to contest the prenuptial.”

“What a suspicious guy,” he said. “In the meantime, there’s all that allowance money to wonder about.”

“Two million?” I said. “Chump change. Don’t get staggered by a few zeroes, Mr. Sturgis.”

“Heaven forfend.”

He got back on Cathcart, drove slowly. “Thing is, he’s got a point. Her kind of income, a hundred twenty a year, could seem like petty cash. If she spent it. But after being up in her room, I don’t see where it went. Books and magazines and a home gym don’t add up to a hundred twenty gees a year—hell, she didn’t even have a VCR. There’s the therapy, but that’s only for the last year. Unless she’s got some secret charity, eighteen years’ worth of unspent allowance would have accumulated to something pretty tidy. By anyone’s standards. Maybe I should have checked her mattress.”

“Could be that’s where the money for the Cassatt came from—both Cassatts.”

“Possible,” he said. “But that still leaves plenty. If she did deposit it in another bank, we’d be hard-pressed to find it any time soon.”

“How could she deal with another bank without leaving the house?”

“That kind of money at stake, plenty of banks would come to her.”

“Neither Ramp nor Melissa mentioned any visits from bankers.”

“True,” he said. “So maybe she just stashed it. For a rainy day. And maybe the rainy day came and she’s got it clutched in her hot little hand right now.”

I thought about that.

He said, “What?”

“Rich lady hauling megabucks in a Rolls. It spells victim.”

He nodded. “In a hundred goddam languages.”

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