Copycat Killing: a Magical Cats Mystery
“Marcus said. He was wearing jeans and a short-sleeved blue T-shirt over a long-sleeved gray one.
I’d gotten to my feet and was waiting, holding the portfolio and the puzzle box when he got to the top of the stairs.
“You’re welcome,” I said. I handed him the leather case.
“Maggie said you found this in a box of her things?”
I pointed to the cardboard carton, still on its side on the floor. “It definitely belongs…belonged to Jaeger. Maggie recognized the top sketch.”
He flipped through some of the other papers without comment, then looked at the puzzle box. “And the box? What’s in that?”
“I don’t know,” I said.
He smiled. “You didn’t look?”
“We couldn’t.” I handed him the box. “It’s a puzzle box.”
He frowned. “Seriously?”
“Seriously.”
Maggie reached over and took the box out of his hands. “See? There’s a piece here that slides out. And another on the opposite side.”
I took a few steps away from them and pulled out my phone. I counted eleven rings before my father answered.
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