Let’s Talk Terror
“GEORGE GASPED. “Fantastic, Nan. We’ve broken open the case!” Then she paused for a second. “So what do we do now?”
“First things first, George,” Nancy said. “We have to contact Lieutenant Dunne and tell him what we’ve found.”
Pointing to a pay phone at the corner, Nancy led George to it and called the lieutenant at police headquarters. To Nancy’s surprise Dunne didn’t seem very impressed.
“So you saw it in a photograph,” he said. “What does that prove? It’s circumstantial at best—like that purp...le marker.”
“Magenta,” Nancy corrected him, barely containing her annoyance. “Have you checked the Stern employees’ fingerprints yet?”
“Nancy,” the lieutenant answered impatiently, “we’re doing all we can over here. Without more evidence, I can’t fingerprint two dozen people. I’d get my head handed to me on a platter.”
“Can’t you question Karen Kristoff, at least?” Nancy prodded him. “Maybe she’d confess under pressure or reveal the name of her partner at Stern Productions, the one who rigged the TelePrompTer and tore up Marcy’s picture.”MoreLess
“First things first, George,” Nancy said. “We have to contact Lieutenant Dunne and tell him what we’ve found.”
Pointing to a pay phone at the corner, Nancy led George to it and called the lieutenant at police headquarters. To Nancy’s surprise Dunne didn’t seem very impressed.
“So you saw it in a photograph,” he said. “What does that prove? It’s circumstantial at best—like that purp...le marker.”
“Magenta,” Nancy corrected him, barely containing her annoyance. “Have you checked the Stern employees’ fingerprints yet?”
“Nancy,” the lieutenant answered impatiently, “we’re doing all we can over here. Without more evidence, I can’t fingerprint two dozen people. I’d get my head handed to me on a platter.”
“Can’t you question Karen Kristoff, at least?” Nancy prodded him. “Maybe she’d confess under pressure or reveal the name of her partner at Stern Productions, the one who rigged the TelePrompTer and tore up Marcy’s picture.”MoreLess
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