A Romantic Way to Die
“he asked.Ruth looked up and said, “I didn’t expect to see you out here today.”Rhodes was reminded of how sore he was. Every muscle in his body ached, but at least his head wasn’t throbbing.“You know me,” he said. “I can’t resist a good crime scene.”“This isn’t a very good one,” Ruth said. “We should’ve been more careful last night.”“I thought we were careful. What’s the problem?”“Footprints.”“There weren’t any.”“Well, there are now. We were here, the ambulance crew was here, the justice of the peace was here. It was like that writers’ convention moved out of the building and met right where Terry Don Coslin fell.”“But everyone knows the drill. Besides, the ground’s too hard to take footprints.”“The grass isn’t. Look at the way it’s been trampled down.”Rhodes could see the flattened blades, which would have been more easily crushed in the evening when the dew was on the ground.“I didn’t notice any of that last night,”
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