Murder for the Modern Girl by Kendall Kulper

Author:Kendall Kulper [Kulper, Kendall]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Holiday House
Published: 2022-05-24T00:00:00+00:00

twenty

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No more liquor. Never again. My head rang and I kept feeling like I’d made a bad transformation. Why else would my tongue be three times too big for my mouth? But I knew exactly why: the tiny chemical foot soldiers in ethyl alcohol had wreaked havoc through my body, rerouting water from my brain, slowing down my neurons, and leaving me with a general feeling of death.

I considered myself lucky, given how Ruby’s night had ended. I couldn’t stop thinking of her, how she’d gotten us out of Coward’s party alive, and that kiss...

And, oh, everything started to spin again.

What had happened to my promise? I told myself I wouldn’t ever kiss as a stranger, but then I’d never counted on a girl like Ruby.

You’ll figure it out later, I told myself, wincing up at the hospital building in the bright morning light—photosensitivity, another aftereffect. Just get through the day, and pray it’s a quiet one.

“Fresh body! Just came in.” Dr. Keene tossed me a notebook the moment I stepped inside the morgue, then breezed past me on his way to the basement autopsy lab. “Come on! I need you to take notes.”

Sighing, I shucked off my coat and swallowed another bout of nausea as I followed him down the stairs. While I’d been busy pulling reports and researching data, Dr. Keene had spent his time spinning up funds for our research into the angel killer. We now had a dedicated corner in the morgue overrun with files, but there was only so much we could do without another body, which was why, when I caught up with Dr. Keene in the autopsy room, he practically tap-danced across the marble floor.

“Healthy, middle-aged man dead in an alley!” Dr. Keene sang, gesturing to the body stretched out on the slab, and there he was. The man from Herman Coward’s party, the one who’d tried to kill me and Ruby, who I’d eventually left, half frozen in the slush. With his body stripped clean of clothes, the puncture wound in his neck stood out like an angry red sting.

“It’s one of ours, Rosewood, I’m sure of it!” Dr. Keene rubbed his hands together, looking down at the corpse. “Now let’s get in there and see what’s gummed up his works.”

❖ ❖ ❖

Cyanide. Fast-acting, deadly cyanide. As soon as we opened him up, he spilled his secrets. Dark, purplish-black blood. The veins leading to the heart stretched wide and strained. Cyanide killed by slipping into the bloodstream and taking the place of oxygen. As the body searched desperately for air, the heart beat faster, faster, faster, which spread the poison through every tiny vein, every muscle, every organ. The victim died gasping for breath, suffocated from the inside.

“Have those typed up and on my desk by the end of the day,” Dr. Keene said, nodding at the notes as he washed his hands. “She’s getting bolder, Rosewood. We’ve got to alert the authorities. There’s a monster loose in this city, and we’re

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