Chapter 32

“So it does,” I said, “and I’d suggest that you and Carl spend a few minutes looking at the test scores, so you can make a good choice. You might even want to run your choices by the rest of the team—if any of the high scorers have some bad personality traits, one of you is bound to know about it.”

“Thanks, Captain,” Janet said. “We’ll do just that.”

“Now,” I said, “we need to talk about crime for a minute.”

“Which one?” Janet said.

“Dead drag queens, of course,” I said. “Not everyone in the room knows this, but there has been a development. Sergeant Johnson, you’re the one who put this together. Why don’t you tell everyone else what happened over the weekend?”

“It began when Jim and I decided to go to Savannah for the weekend,” Carl said. “In looking around at what was happening in Savannah, we learned that there was a gay bar in town that wasn’t on the list of bars we’ve been focusing on in this case. So, we went to it Friday evening.” He paused for a minute.