“I put on some tango and paid attention to Bub and Sputnik while Lois sat on her favorite armchair giving us the evil eye. Looking at her I couldn’t help thinking: she’d make an adorable throw rug. The phone rang.
“Janet’s Planet.”
“Hi, it’s Josie. I found out a few interesting things about Collier Denton. In 1979, the actor Ian Stock who was the star of the soap opera The Well Runs Deep died in a suspicious fire at his house in Sneden’s Landing. Two weeks later his part was recast with Collier Denton.”
I flashed on the scar on Denton’s left forearm.
“And no determination was ever made as to the cause of the fire?”
“Stock was a smoker and forensics was able to determine that the fire originated in his bedroom, but his body was so badly incinerated that medical examiners were unable to establish a definitive cause of death. No charges were ever filed.”
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