Trouble in Texas_A Flight Risk Cozy Mystery by Susan Harper

Author:Susan Harper [Harper, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fairfield Publishing
Published: 2018-04-18T04:00:00+00:00

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Once everyone had settled down a bit after Jesse had her leg sewn up, they all migrated back in front of the fireplace. They sat Jesse alone on the couch, propping her injured leg up on a pillow. Junior was kind enough to fetch extra pillows for her so she could sit up with ease, as well as a blanket. Mr. Carson never sat down, Kendell noted. He looked furious as he paced behind everyone, occasionally grumbling to himself about the fire. Kendell couldn’t blame him. It had been his property that had been destroyed.

“I’m going to go into the cellar and check it out,” Mr. Carson finally announced, his voice beyond irritated. “See if anything managed to not be destroyed by that fire.”

“You might want to take Kendell with you,” Pauline suggested, giving Kendell a wink. “The girl has a keen eye. She might find something you wouldn’t.”

Mr. Carson nodded, and Kendell followed him outside and around the house. She knew the real reason Pauline had suggested she tag along was to make sure no evidence was being scooped up. You never knew who the killer might be; Kendell had yet to uncover any possible motives for Mr. Carson or anyone apart from Laurie. Frankly, as suspicious as Laurie was, she didn’t seem strong enough to take Monica down with such ease and confidence with everyone else in the crowded room with them.

They each had their own flashlight, and Mr. Carson also brought what looked like a battery-operated lantern. “That’s interesting,” Kendell said, looking at the plastic lantern that he set down on the floor in the middle of the smoky-smelling cellar.

“Oh, it’s great for camping,” Mr. Carson said as he twisted a nob on the top, and it lit up the entire cellar with a bluish light.

“What do we even need flashlights for?” Kendell asked. “I should definitely order one of those things online. We get occasional blackouts in New York. That thing would probably light up my whole apartment.”

They began pulling things out of the cellar—anything that hadn’t been totally destroyed by the fire—and they set storage boxes and garden tools outside to air out. The hope was that the items would avoid smoke damage if they brought it all out of the cellar, which still smoldered a little. Mr. Carson pointed to a few different areas in the cellar, groaning as he spoke. “We need to probably dump some water on these hot spots. Make sure the house doesn’t go up in flames in the middle of the night.” He came to a half-burnt wooden filing cabinet, and he looked beyond annoyed. “Great. Let’s hope I don’t get audited anytime soon. Junior told me I needed to put all this stuff on a hard drive.”

“Oh no, is that all your records?” Kendell asked.

“It was,” he growled, sifting through the ashes of half-burnt paper. Then he spotted an empty gas container in another corner. He knelt beside them, shaking each of them one at a time. “This was full two days ago,” he hissed.

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