Mother's Day Murder
“Was it the Martha Stewart syndrome? Was Bart, the eminent cardiac surgeon, church deacon, and Republican Party stalwart, just too perfect to be true?
Phyllis certainly thought so. She could hardly wait for Lucy to get through the door before she began relating his latest advance to Elfrida.
“You won’t believe this,” she began, primly pursing her lips. “That Dr. Straight-and-Narrow has some mouth on him. Elfrida called me last night, all upset. Said she couldn’t believe what she was hearing, just because she won’t put out for him in the storage closet.”
“The storage closet?”
“Yeah, he wants to keep it a secret because his girlfriend is real jealous.”
Lucy was puzzled. “His girlfriend?”
“Yeah, his receptionist. Amanda Connell.”
“Are you telling me that Bart already has a girlfriend, but he still wants to mess around with Elfrida?”
“Right. And Elfrida doesn’t want anything to do with him, and that’s exactly what she told him, nice and polite, and he started this foulmouthed tirade.”
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