The Golden Goose
“Everything considered, they agreed to a surprising degree. The conviction was voiced by everyone that Uncle Slater had not been murdered by anyone present, because none of them would have been fool enough to kill the lovely golden goose. So if it had been murder the obvious explanation was that an unknown somebody had slipped into the house at considerable risk and poured a shot of something deadly into Uncle Slater’s bourbon bottle for no reason anyone present could think of. It all made so little sense that the longer they discussed Uncle Slater’s death the surer they were that he had not been murdered at all. Still, Grundy and Dr. Appleton had seemed so positive that something would be found in the bottle and in Uncle Slater.
“But can they just go ahead and autopsy Uncle Slater without permission?” Cousin Peet wanted to know.
“We’ve been all through that, Peetie,” said Prin kindly.
“They’ve got to have the permission of the next of kin,” said Coley, “or evidence of an unnatural cause.
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