Christmas Scarf Murder by Carlene O'Connor

Author:Carlene O'Connor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington Books
Published: 2022-06-23T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

By ten-fifteen things were quiet enough for me to slip a slice of cheese and a crispy rasher of bacon inside a biscuit. I pulled up a chair at Adele and Samuel’s table. Eva and Cole had left shortly after Eva’s encounter with Adele, and I was itching to find out what had gone on.

Samuel sat with his chair pushed back, turning the pages of the Brown County Democrat. Adele poked at her phone with her index finger but laid the device on the table as I sat.

“I s’pose you want to know what in heck old Eva was so het up about,” my aunt began in a soft voice.

“I do.” I matched her tone.

Samuel glanced over his readers at us and went straight back to his article. I’d been acquainted with him long enough to know that he rarely butted into Adele’s business or even asked about it.

“Seems Eva’s buying into the thought that I applied that there toxic substance to my own yarn. That’s why she and Brewster weren’t knitting this morning. The only yarn they got is mine, and neither wants to touch it.”

I wrinkled my nose. “That’s crazy, Adele.” I took a bite of my snack.

“Sure it is. But what can you do? Thing is, the yarn Wanda and crew showed me wasn’t the exact same green as I use. Sure, it had my label on the skein and all such like that. But that green was a bluer shade.”

“That’s strange, isn’t it?” I asked.

“I told em which end was up, so to speak, and one of those cops had the audacity to suggest my eyesight’s going. Why, I’ve been using that same shade of green dye for nigh on twenty years, Robbie. You’d think I’d know when my yarn’s been tampered with.”

“Nothing wrong with my girl’s eyes, I can attest to that.” Samuel beamed at his “girl” of seventy-four.

I had to agree. But was it the toxin that made Adele’s green yarn look more blue? It had to be.

“I told Eva I wadn’t under arrest or nothing,” Adele continued. “I said the detective doesn’t have a chicken-picking thing to charge me with. Eva didn’t appear to care.”

“Did Wanda give you any sense of what the toxin was?” I asked. “The one in the yarn Vicky was knitting with, I mean. How it got there?”

“She suspects it was something agricultural or whatnot. They were still waiting on some lab results.” Adele shook her head. “It’s a frustration, Robbie. No two ways about it.”

I narrowed my eyes. “Something agricultural.” I’d learned about a lethal herbicide in California when I was out there and had explored whether it had been the cause of my mom’s sudden death. “Like an herbicide or a pesticide?”

“Might could be.” Adele drained her coffee.

“So, the question is, who has access to agricultural poisons and also wanted Vicky out of the way?”

“That would be the question, all righty.”

I thought for a moment. “Cole sells real estate. He could have found something lethal in a client’s shed.

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