Dog Knows by Neil S. Plakcy

Author:Neil S. Plakcy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: golden retrievers, cozy dog mystery, dog mysteries for adults, pet mystery, mysteries with dogs, dog cozy mystery, dog mysteries
Publisher: Samwise Books
Published: 2018-11-14T16:00:00+00:00

11 – Passion

The entrance gate to River Bend was broken when I got home, so I had to take out my wallet and show my driver’s license to the guard in order to get in. I dropped my wallet on the seat, and when I carried it into the house I left it on the dining room table.

Rochester, of course, was all over me, so excited to see me after I’d abandoned him for an hour. I trekked upstairs, Rochester dogging me, and found Lili reading in the bedroom. I’d replaced my parents’ bed with a king-sized four-poster, though I still used an Amish quilt my mother had bought when we visited Lancaster as a kid. When Lili moved in, she brought her collection of framed photos by famous artists, which shared space with a watercolor of an old Pennsylvania barn that spoke to me when I spotted it at an estate sale.

She liked my haircut, and after I shucked my shoes and my shirt and emptied my pockets into the jewelry box on the nightstand, I left her there and went back downstairs to look at the password cracker program.

For a moment I didn’t realize what I was looking at—why wasn’t the screen zipping through possible passwords? Then I realized the software had finally been able to open up the zip file that LoveMySled28 had sent Carl, and I was looking at the unzipped contents of the file.

All I got, though, was a single Excel spreadsheet of nearly 200 nine-digit numbers. At first I thought they might be phone numbers, so I arranged them in numerical order, looking for recognizable area codes. But then I realized that my own phone number, with area code, exchange and number, was ten digits, not nine.

Credit card numbers? I thought they had to be longer than nine digits, and I did a quick check with a site that would tell you if a credit card number was authentic, based on its ability to pass a series of tests called the Luhn algorithm. It wasn’t something you wanted to bother with yourself, but if, for example, you were accepting credit card numbers online, you’d want to be sure the number you were given was a valid one before completing the transaction.

The numbers I had couldn’t be credit card numbers, because they weren’t long enough – those had to be sixteen to nineteen digits long in order for the Luhn algorithm to work. But if they weren’t card numbers, what were they?

I was staring at the screen mindlessly when I heard Rochester licking something. He’d had a hotspot a couple of months before, so I was alert to the sound of his tongue working over some place or thing. “What are you up to, boy?” I asked, as I looked up.

He had my wallet between his paws, and several of my credit cards had spilled out. “Oh, Rochester!” I said. “That is not yours.”

I reached over and took the wallet from him, then scooped up the cards from the floor.

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