Curiosity Thrilled the Cat (2011)
Curiosity Thrilled the Cat
“I said. “Is this about Gregor Easton?”
“Oh, yes, it is,” she said, and there was a smug gleefulness in her voice. Then she yawned again.
“Have you been to bed yet?” I asked.
Lise’s husband was a jazz guitarist who played regularly in clubs all over Boston and up and down the East Coast. He didn’t keep exactly regular hours, and on the weekend neither did Lise.
“I’m lying across the bed right now,” Lise said.
“So what did you find out?” I asked. “I got your e-mail.” I pictured her sprawled across her queen-sized bed with all the pillows piled under her head.
“Well, as I told you in the e-mail, Easton was born Douglas Gregory Williams. The pulled-himself-upfrom-humble-beginnings story?”
“A fake?” I had to change position because one of my feet was falling asleep.
“Uh-huh. Just like the name. He did his first degree at a small university in Florida. And get this: It was a teaching degree.”
“Easton was going to be a teacher?”
“Apparently,” Lise said.
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