Chapter 8

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Half an hour after Quint arrived home, he got a call from Lou.

“I went to see Coleen Rogers, the ex Mrs. Seaver, who’s back to using her maiden name. I told her I was trying to contact Mr. Seaver—but not why—and hoped she had a more recent address than the one on file for him.”

“Presumably the one she has is for the apartment building,” Quint said.

“Yep. She had a few not-so-kind words about Ms. Garland and the fact she was one in a long line of, as she put it, his whores.”

Quint chuckled. “It sounds like she still harbors a grudge about the cause for the divorce.”

“No kidding. Obviously, she was not the woman in the photo. I have the feeling she’d have throttled him, if she could have gotten her hands on him.”

“So we don’t have a case, since both she and Ms. Garland are alive, and Ms. Garland is the one sporting, as you put it, a bruised neck. Or, more like trying to hide it.”