Chapter 36: Stumbling Around

The phone was ringing when I walked into the foyer, Daisy handing it off to me almost instantly. She made a funny face, a little worried, so I knew instantly who it was when I sighed into the receiver.

"What do you want, Crew?"

Silence a moment and I wondered if I pegged it wrong before he spoke, enough anger in his voice I knew I hadn't gotten away with my little investigation.

"I just had two people walk into my office," he said. "Pamela Shard and Aundrea Wilkins. They alibied each other. Told me lots of things." He huffed softly on the other end of the line and I could see in my mind's eye his forehead vein popping out, cheeks darkening. "Mainly, that you're responsible for their appearance. Because you didn't listen, you never listen, apparently, when a police officer tells you to stay the hell away from the crimes he's investigating."

"Again," I said, so over his attitude, "you're welcome. Because you really think they would have come to you otherwise?"