Thirty-Four And a Half Predicaments: Rose Gardner Mystery #7
“I said for what had to be the hundredth time as I pulled my truck up to the curb. But Neely Kate seemed exceptionally bloodthirsty, and truth be told, I didn’t trust her all that much to behave. “Let me do the talkin’ this time.”
“That hardly seems fair,” she grumbled.
“It all happened twenty-five years ago, Neely Kate. He’s bound to be old and incapacitated. He’s probably wheelin’ around an oxygen tank.” I took the keys out of the ignition. “So just be careful with the elderly gentleman.” All we needed was for her to Tase him and give him a heart attack.
“Sure.” But she didn’t sound like she meant it.
We walked up to the front door of the rundown brick ranch home. I stepped in front of Neely Kate and knocked. When no one answered, I waited a moment and knocked again.
An elderly woman next door poked her head out her front door. “He ain’t home.”
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