Death By Surprise (Carolyn Hart Classics)
“I settled down to work.
In an hour, I had it laid out—and it looked bad for the Carlisles.
Item: Boutelle came to La Luz to write the Carlisle story.
Item: To our knowledge, Boutelle had no other contacts in La Luz.
Item: She was strangled with Kenneth’s silk scarf.
That, of course, was the whammy.
If her head had been smashed by a poker, we could reasonably imagine her attacker to be anyone, a maniac stranger who happened to pick her as a victim, a neighbor irritated ...by her cat, a door-to-door salesman overcome by the lust to kill, a devil-ridden evangelist with homicidal tendencies.
It was impossible that any of the above could have come into possession of Kenneth’s scarf.
What did we know about the scarf?
Item: Kenneth wore it to work Monday. He did not think of it again until leaving Grace’s house Monday evening.MoreLess
In an hour, I had it laid out—and it looked bad for the Carlisles.
Item: Boutelle came to La Luz to write the Carlisle story.
Item: To our knowledge, Boutelle had no other contacts in La Luz.
Item: She was strangled with Kenneth’s silk scarf.
That, of course, was the whammy.
If her head had been smashed by a poker, we could reasonably imagine her attacker to be anyone, a maniac stranger who happened to pick her as a victim, a neighbor irritated ...by her cat, a door-to-door salesman overcome by the lust to kill, a devil-ridden evangelist with homicidal tendencies.
It was impossible that any of the above could have come into possession of Kenneth’s scarf.
What did we know about the scarf?
Item: Kenneth wore it to work Monday. He did not think of it again until leaving Grace’s house Monday evening.MoreLess
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