Murder in the Bowery by Victoria Thompson

Author:Victoria Thompson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2017-04-06T15:40:10+00:00

9

Gino just sat gaping after Frank finished telling him what he’d learned about Estelle Longacre. Fortunately, Frank hadn’t mentioned the part about how interested or not interested Estelle was in sex. Gino might’ve fainted dead away.

“So she was expecting a baby, but it couldn’t have been Arburn or Robinson who fathered it?”

“So it seems. Sarah is going to question Penelope Longacre to see what she can find out. Hopefully, she’ll have some idea who else Estelle might’ve been involved with.”

“Because he might’ve also been jealous of Robinson and followed her to the Bowery to take his revenge. Could it be Norman Tufts, do you think?”

Frank rubbed his chin thoughtfully. “Robinson didn’t think so, and I can’t imagine Norman would even know what to do, but maybe I’m misjudging him. Anything is possible, I guess.”

“But who else would she have spent time with?”

“I don’t know. I’m going to go back and talk to her father again. He might know something, too. Of course, he might not tell me. He seems like the kind of man who enjoys being disagreeable.”

“That does sound like fun,” Gino said with a grin. “What can I do?”

“I think we need to talk to Raven Saggio again. Find out if he and Freddie were the ones who found Estelle’s body in the trunk, and also if Freddie told him anything about seeing Estelle that night or someone hauling the trunk out of Robinson’s flat.”

“It would be nice if Freddie had recognized him and told Raven who it was, too.”

“I’m not asking for miracles, although it’s possible that he did recognize the person.”

“You think it would’ve taken two people to get the trunk down the stairs and haul it away, though, so that doubles the chance that Freddie recognized one of them.”

“Unless he was the second person. I didn’t say anything to Robinson, but another possibility I was thinking about is that Freddie would’ve helped Arburn if Arburn told him Robinson had asked him to take some things out of the flat.”

“Wouldn’t he wonder what was in the trunk that was so heavy?”

“Probably. That might be what happened. Freddie kept asking and when Arburn or whoever it was refused to answer, he got scared and ran. That would explain why the killer had to leave the trunk. He wouldn’t have gone to the trouble of hauling her body away unless he didn’t want her found.”

“And if he didn’t want her found, he’d never just leave her where he left her, knowing she’d be found almost immediately.”

“So I’m thinking your chances of finding Raven this early in the day are pretty good. He’s probably still sleeping, since the newsies are still on strike.”

“How long can this strike go on?”

“I don’t know, but I read in one of the other papers I picked up that newsboys in all the surrounding states are all refusing to sell the Journal and the World, too. Somebody has to give in soon.”

“I’m thinking it’ll be the boys. They’ve got to be feeling the pinch after almost two weeks with no income.

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