Date for Murder (2012)
“the Chief said. They were seated in a far corner of the living room; Mark and the Chief on a divan, Myra in a chair opposite them. She seemed quite composed, her features steady in their sharpness. Mark watched her hands. The nails were long and unpainted, and she was plucking at a little knot in the hem of her loose slack shirt.
“Such as what was I doing walking on the railroad tracks at four-thirty this morning?” she smiled.
“Yeah, that too,” the Chief said.
“I was simply taking a walk,” she ...said. “As I told Mark—” she inclined her head toward him with a smile—”I have a financial problem and I was trying to puzzle it out.”
“You come up here?”
“Not within a few hundred yards. I was that close to the west edge of the grove,” she said.
“Can you prove that?”
Myra laughed, a metallic laugh. “Can you prove otherwise?”
The Chief spread his hands. “Okay, if that’s the way you’re going to be.”
“But it isn’t,” she said. Her smile softened her features.MoreLess
“Such as what was I doing walking on the railroad tracks at four-thirty this morning?” she smiled.
“Yeah, that too,” the Chief said.
“I was simply taking a walk,” she ...said. “As I told Mark—” she inclined her head toward him with a smile—”I have a financial problem and I was trying to puzzle it out.”
“You come up here?”
“Not within a few hundred yards. I was that close to the west edge of the grove,” she said.
“Can you prove that?”
Myra laughed, a metallic laugh. “Can you prove otherwise?”
The Chief spread his hands. “Okay, if that’s the way you’re going to be.”
“But it isn’t,” she said. Her smile softened her features.MoreLess
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