The Roar of the Crowd by Janice Macdonald

Author:Janice Macdonald
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Woman Sleuth, Theatre, Edmonton
ISBN: 97808888014719
Publisher: Creative Book Publishing
Published: 2014-06-27T04:00:00+00:00

24.

I spent the evening sorting through timelines, trying to figure out what had happened when, in order to have things ready for Steve when he got home. I knew better than to give any of this to Iain, as he had plainly told me to keep my oar out. But something had to be done to goose them into looking beyond Denise as a jealous lover. It wasn’t that I considered them inept; they were just wrong in this case, and while I couldn’t fault their logic, they didn’t know Denise the way I did.

I printed off a series of blank calendar months from my computer so that I could map the order of events. While Eleanor had been murdered in late June, I printed off May through July, since that was when Denise, and by extension I, had become involved with the theatre folk.

Denise and Sarah had done their Romeo and Juliet co-production in May, but had actually begun the work in April. I printed off another calendar month. I wondered when Denise and Kieran had got together. I remembered that they had been together at the after-party, because that was when he floated the idea that I apply for the teaching grant for Shakespeare camp. I checked my wall calendar and noted the scrawled “Denise: Party: 9 pm,” that happened on May 23.

I scribbled in events as best I could, realizing I’d have to clue Denise into the exercise and get her over here with her date book.

I had got the job on May 30, giving me a month to prep prior to the festival and camps getting into full gear. The announcement that Eleanor was cast had come before that, because I recalled Steve saying Denise’d be only three degrees from Kevin Bacon, since Kiefer Sutherland had had a cameo on Gopher Broke and had appeared in A Few Good Men with Bacon.

I did a quick search through the archives on the Edmonton Journal website and found their full-page spread on Eleanor on April 23. Kieran either wooed her quickly and well, or they had organized it prior to her arrival.

Oren Gentry died on June 12. His funeral took place on the 15th which, given its complexity, was amazing.

Eleanor had died on June 21.

The time frame seemed stretched out and elongated as I sketched in the events across the pages of the year before me. In reality, it felt like they had all taken about fifteen minutes and as if Steve had been in Sweden for months, when in reality he had left only a week before Eleanor died. Mapping things out was a good exercise, but I wasn’t sure it was going to mean anything to Steve beyond my getting things straight in the telling.

Taryn said that there would be loads of people vying for Oren Gentry’s job. I wondered if it would be possible to get a list of the candidates. Maybe Denise could find out. Who was I kidding? If Steve thought it was worth having, he’d be able to get the list, no problem.

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