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"Thank you," A
"No persons by those names have contacted Ms. Van Slyke in her professional capacity," Francine said mimicking an automaton.
Had the sentence with its convoluted precision come from someone else, A
"Thank you," A
No cheese down that hole,A
Carl G. Micou, registered owner of the abandoned truck and trailer, the man who'd given the Florida motor vehicles department the number of Fetterman's Adventure Trails as his home number, remained a mystery. A
Mentally apologizing to Joan for a phone bill she would probably have a devil of a time getting her department reimbursed for, A
The department of tourism could tell her little more. The woman who answered the phone offered to send A
An hour's work had provided her with one first name, if "Woody" was legit and not a nickname. Maybe Woodrow. Since Woody had been in business in the same place for twenty-six years he was no fly-by-night. It had been in the back of A
McCaskil was from the Tampa area-or had been there as a teenager. He could've seen the name Fetterman on his way to work or school every day and remembered it when he needed an alias. If it wasn't for the name cropping up again by way of the owner of the abandoned truck, A
"Woody Fetterman." A
Another possibility exhausted. Bill McCaskil a.k.a. Fetterman was not the Fetterman of Adventure Trails. He was not co
"Damn," A
She spent forty more minutes on the phone and eventually ended up back at the records department in Tampa. The search took longer this time but Mr. Micou's death certificate was found. He had died of congestive heart failure in April of 1995, nearly six years ago.
"His truck is still alive," A
"I beg your pardon?"
"Never mind. Thanks." Dead men, dead ends.
Sprinkled around the edges of Joan's office was all the information that, by any wild stretch of the imagination, could pertain to the death of Carolyn Van Slyke. A
When they caught McCaskil, if she were around, A
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Rory had denied any knowledge of that stick, A
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Thinking about it, she picked up a ruler, close in length to the mystery stick, though a good deal ski