the Best Laid Plans (1997) by Sidney Sheldon

Author:Sidney Sheldon [Sheldon, Sidney]
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Published: 2010-12-19T00:41:45.578000+00:00

AUTOPSY PROTOCOL

NAME OF DECEDENT: JANE DOE FILE No: C-Ix6l ANATOMIC SUMMARY

I. DILATED AND HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY

A. CARDIOMEGALY (750 GM)

B. LEFT VENTRICULAR HYPERTROPHY, HEART

(2.3 CM)

C. CONGESTIVE HEPATOMEGALY (2750 GM

D. CONGESTIVE SPLENOMEGALY (350 MG>

II. ACUTE OPIATE INTOXICATION

A. ACUTE PASSIVE CONGESTION, ALL VISCERA

III. TOXICOLOGY (SEE SEPARATE REPORT)

IV. BRAIN HEMORRHAGE (SEE SEPARATE REPORT) CONCLUSION: (CAUSE OF

DEATH)

DILATED AND HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY ACUTE OPIATE INTOXICATION

Nick Reese looked up. "So if you translated this into English, she died of a drug overdose of Ecstasy?" "Yes." "Was she sexually assaulted?" Helen Chuan hesitated. "Her hymen had been broken, and there were traces of semen and a little blood along her thighs." "So she was raped." "I don't think so." "What do you mean you don't think so?" Reese frowned. "There were no signs of violence." Detective Reese was looking at her, puzzled. "What are you saying?" "I think that Jane Doe was a virgin. This was her first sexual experience.

Detective Reese stood there, digesting the information. Someone had been able to persuade a virgin to go up to the Imperial Suite and have sex with him. It would have had to be someone she knew. Or someone famous or powerful. The telephone rang. Helen Chuan picked it up "Coroner's office." She listened a moment, then handed the phone to the detective. "It's for you." Nick Reese took the phone. "Reese.

His face brightened.

"Oh, yes, Mrs. Holbrook. Thanks for returning my call. It's a class ring from your school with the initials P. Y. on it. Do you have a female student with those initials?... I'd appreciate it. Thank you I'll wait." He looked up at the coroner. "You're sure she couldn't have been raped?" "I found no signs of violence. None." "Could she have been penetrated after she died?" "I would say no." Mrs Holbrook's voice came back on the phone. "Detective Reese?" "Yes.

"According to our computer, we do have a female student with the initials P. Y. Her name is Pauline Young." "Could you describe her for me, Mrs. Holbrook?" "Why, yes. Pauline is eighteen. She's short and stocky, with dark hair...." "I see." Wrong girl. "And that's the only one?" "The only female, yes." He picked up on it. "You mean you have a male with those initials? "Yes. Paul Yerby. He's a senior As a matter of fact, Paul happens to be in Washington, D. C." right now." Detective Reese's heart began to beat faster. "He's here?

"Yes. A class of students from Denver High is on a trip to Washington to visit the White House and Congress and " "And they're all in the city now?"

"That's right."

"Do you happen to know where they're staying?"

"At the Hotel Lombardy. They gave us a group rate there. I talked with several of the other hotels, but they wouldn't "

"Thank you very much, Mrs. Holbrook. I appreciate it."

Nick Reese replaced the receiver and turned to the coroner. "Let me know when the autopsy is complete, will you, Helen?"

"Of course. Good luck, Nick."

He nodded. "I think I've just had it."

The Hotel Lombardy is

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