“At one point, I went around the corner and studied the shrubs below the library window, but the sound of Caron’s insufferably gleeful voice informing Inez of her newly acquired wealth was as much the cause of my indigestion as the food served at dinner. The discovery of the brandy decanter was a contributor, too. If it had blood on it, and if the blood was Miss Justicia’s, then whoever had wielded it then brought it back from the bayou and buried it in the leaves beneath the window. It would se...em much easier to toss it in the bayou, where eventually it would sink into the silt…if we were not supposed to find it. If we were (this in itself a poser), then why hide it? The pseudo-driver was the only person downstairs when we’d heard the wheelchair in the yard. Ellie had told me she’d found him asleep on a sofa, and it was possible he’d dozed through the ensuing events. Before he vanished, that is. My foray into inductive logic was swampier than the bayou, and I reluctantly dismissed it as the ravings of a semistarved gothic heroine.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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