Elaine Orr - Jolie Gentil 06 - Behind the Walls by Elaine Orr
Author:Elaine Orr [Orr, Elaine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery: Cozy - Real Estate Appraiser - New Jersey
ISBN: 1493744666
Publisher: Lifelong Dreams
Published: 2013-11-26T00:00:00+00:00
Mr. Fitzgerald
1. Had a cousin who lived in my house.
2. Took things from auction customers. I crossed out ‘took’ and wrote ‘stole.’
3. Found the drawer on his seat.
4. Not sure who left it, or did he take it?
5. Grew up in Ocean Alley.
6. Did he know Mrs. Peebles well?
7. Dead
Clive Dorner
1. Spent time with his uncle here
2. Lived in Philadelphia
3. Grew up in Ocean Grove
4. Real estate investor
5. Took advantage of people
6. Called me instead of a realtor. Why?
7. Dead
I was alternating items, adding one to Mr. Fitzgerald’s list and one to Dorner’s. I was about to write that Mr. Fitzgerald did things for charities when there was a light knock at the door.
“Nuts. I should have locked it.” I peered out. George Winters gave me the peace sign.
“Don’t tell me Scoobie called you.”
He grinned. “Okay, I won’t.” He came in and looked around.
“Scoobie said you painted flamingos on one wall.”
“And you believed him?” I gestured that he should sit at the small dinette table and sat across from him, my notebook closed in front of me.
“Since I didn’t think you could draw, I figured it was at best fifty-fifty.” He looked at me directly. “What is it you want to do?”
“Maybe nothing.”
He snorted.
“But I like to make lists of what I know and don’t know. I think better that way.”
“Can we eat first?” he asked, sniffing the air.
I went to the kitchen and he stood in the doorway as I silently took two plates from the cupboard and cut two pieces of the lasagna and put one on each plate. So, now he eats with me again?
He carried the two plates to the table and I got ice water. After he took his first bite, he said, “This is a high-visibility deal. You think the cops won’t do everything?” He did a gimme gesture and I opened the notebook and handed it to him.
“I expect they will. I just want to be sure they connect all the dots. I don’t want to find anybody else on my porch swing, and I want to know who used to own that jewelry so I can return it and no one else comes looking for more.”
He glanced up from the list as he pulled out his narrow reporter’s notebook and took the pencil from the spiral binding. “And those dots would be?”
“First, the drawer vanished from the chest of drawers I bought at the auction…”
“And you got it back.”
“From Fitzgerald, who says he doesn’t know who put it on his van seat, but maybe he did know.”
“And…?”
“The jewelry.” I raised my hand and closed two fingers. “Three,” I said, closing another, “is the obvious one. Mr. Fitzgerald on my porch. Four, he’s Clive Dorner’s uncle and now Dorner’s dead.”
“Luckily not on your porch,” George said, looking at me steadily.
“Five. At some point Fitzgerald’s mother’s cousin lived in this house. Maybe she put the jewelry behind the wall.”
“Be a pretty big hole,” he said, bemused.
“It was newer wall board. What if she was
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