“He had talked to Fred Scherrer on the phone. Talking to Fred Scherrer was like talking to any lawyer, only worse. It was impossible to find out anything you really wanted to know in a straightforward way at the same time that it was impossible to avoid revelations you had no interest in exploding under your feet like land mines. Gregor learned all about Fred Scherrer’s last two wives, about the arrangements Candida DeWitt had made with the men who kept her, about Fred Scherrer’s admiration for ...Candida as an intelligent businesswoman. He did not learn anything at all about the murder that he did not already know. Fred Scherrer had no alibi because Fred Scherrer was staying at Candida DeWitt’s house. At two o’clock on Saturday afternoon Scherrer had decided that he would not be able to live without two dozen Bavarian creme doughnuts from Dunkin’ Donuts in the kitchen. He had driven off to the center of Bryn Mawr and with one thing and another—traffic, stopping to buy a disposable razor, deciding to get two dozen jelly doughnuts in addition to the Bavarian cremes—hadn’t made it back until four-thirty.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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