The Case of the Tabloid Tattler (The Kitten Files Book 1) by Perry Kirkpatrick

Author:Perry Kirkpatrick [Kirkpatrick, Perry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Perry Elisabeth Kirkpatrick
Published: 2014-06-01T04:00:00+00:00

Eight

The meetings were teaching me how to manage a staff and run a house (even when allergic), but that was all I was learning. I worried I was running out of time. That afternoon I decided I would spy on one person on each of the remaining four days. If I couldn’t pinpoint who the culprit was by then, I would at least have lots of information for Keith. To be honest, I really hoped to have a solution to the case. I wanted to crack this one.

I started with Beth. She pretty much stayed in the kitchen and dining room. Cooking, cleaning up after cooking, serving a meal, and then doing it all over again. It was a delicious day, but pretty unenlightening. The only thing I learned was that she was still paying off medical bills from when she’d been hit by a bicyclist last summer. Needing money could be a motive, I realized. But there was nothing definite to report.

The next day I tackled stalking Jeff anytime he was in the house or could be seen from one of the windows. That was rather nerve-wracking because every time he happened to see me, he’d either menacingly order me out of the room or come and chase me out. That guy really didn’t like me.

Mary’s day was pretty full. I was snoozing and keeping an eye on the side door when she came in early the second-to-last morning of my stay. She headed to the kitchen and started the coffee maker. In a bit, when it was finished, she poured herself a cup and sat down to look over her notes for the day. I felt pretty bad about it, but I really had to see what those notes contained. I jumped up on her lap, purring, as if begging for her to pet me. I knew she wouldn’t—that she couldn’t. I only had a moment to glance at her notebook before she brushed me off her lap and jumped up.

“No, no, no!” she said in annoyance, trying to hold her breath and hurrying to wash her hands. “Stay away from me, cat,” she said sternly. I slunk into a corner where I could feel guilty and still keep an eye on her. I hadn’t been able to take in everything, but what I had seen of her notes looked pretty innocent. Mostly scribblings about what needed cleaning, what supplies needed to be checked on, and notes for meeting with her employer.

Pretty soon the others arrived, and they held the morning meeting while Beth began cooking. When this was done and breakfast had been served to Ms. Thornblood, Mary started on her to-do list. I followed at a distance as she made the rounds of the five bathrooms in the house and inventoried their supply of toilet paper, soap, and towels. She found there was not the correct number of enormous white bath towels in one of the guest bathrooms, and brought two more up from the linen closet by the laundry room downstairs.

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