Today’s excerpt is from Whodunit
Did It, the first of three Elmer Bader books.
Elmer’s third ex-wife (and current lover) discovers something he missed
while checking cold case files. Enjoy
and have a fantastic day.
m.j.
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When Elmer and
Alan reached Ruth’s home, they carried their files inside. After a fine meal, they started to go through
what they had brought. Elmer had
brought half a dozen files they had already gone through. He explained to Ruth what to look for as he
handed her those files. He noticed as he
worked on his stack of files that she was lagging behind. He figured it was to be expected, as he
realized she was doing her best to be thorough.
His observation made, he almost felt bad about giving her files they had
already gone through. All the files he
had given her, he had personally gone through.
At one point
Ruth smiled, “This is fun. If I knew how
much fun you two had at work, I might have become a cop, too.”
Alan and Elmer
just looked at each other, shrugged, then went back to work. As he got near the end of his pile of files,
Elmer glanced at Ruth. He saw she was
intent on something in one of her files.
He wondered about it, but went back to work, only to soon hear Ruth say,
“I think I’ve got one.”
Elmer nearly
laughed, but went over to sit next to Ruth on the couch. She told him why she thought the file might
be the same man as “Whodunit.” He looked
over the file he had already been through.
“Damn, damn, and damn. You’re
right, Ruthie.”
“Why so upset?”
Realizing he was
going to have to lie or tell the truth, he thought a second before he realized
he had never lied to Ruth, so told her the truth. She picked up one of the discarded
files. She hit him over the head with it
as she muttered a few oaths.
Alan, having
taken that all in, tried to help his partner.
“Ruth, may I point out Elmer told you he had been the one to go through
those files, meaning he missed what you found—which makes you a better
detective than the great Elmer Bader?”
Ruth stopped
hitting Elmer and swearing, then grinned, “Yeah—thanks, Alan. You can sleep in my room tonight—this bozo
can sleep in yours.”
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