Can you guess what I am?
Order Up! Person, Place or Thing?
A. I Dream of Jeannie debuts on TV
B. Simon & Garfunkel hit it big on the charts
with “Mrs. Robinson”
C. The Bell System introduces the first
touch-tone phone available to consumersCan you guess which
happened first, second
and third?D
etectives
Susan Conrad
and Bob Johnson
walked past a Celebrate
Summer poster and into
the break room in the
town library. A small
man’s body lay slumped
over a table, a pencil embed-
ded in his narrow neck.
“Whoever did this sure
knew the spot to hit,” Conrad
observed grimly.
“Or it could have just been
dumb luck,” Johnson replied.
“Want to finish filling
us in? ” Conrad said to K at
Duncan, the head librarian.
“Tony is...was our accoun-
tant. I found him like this
when I came back here for some
lemonade mix.” She shook her
head at the guy with the pencil
in his neck. “I knew Tony the
Troublemaker would come to
a bad end one day.”
“Nice nickname.”
“Unfortunate, I know. But
he brought it on
himself.” Kat
wrung her hands.
“As a matter of
fact, he just had a
fight here today
with one of our
regular patrons.
Dorothy apparently
had overdue fees,and they got into it. I hired him
because he’s good with num-
bers, but his bedside manner...
oh, honey!”
“What did you do after you
found him?” Conrad asked.
“I called 911 and told our
patrons to wait in the confer-
ence room, then locked the
front door so nobody new
could wander in.”
“Did you tell anybody what
happened?” Johnson said.
“Not a word. Just said that
Tony had died.” She smiled
with pride. “I’ve seen those
shows where people do stupid
things...I wanted to be a good
eyewitness for you.”
Kat led the detectives to the
conference room where three
people waited at a table.
Doug Shepherd sat reading
a magazine called Amazing
Anatomy. “Is this going to take
long? I have somewhere to be.”
“We’ ll tr y to ma ke it quick,”
Conrad assured.“Did you know Tony?”
Doug smirked, draping an
arm across the back of his chair.
“As a matter of fact, I did. He
ca lled my girlfriend last night,”
Doug spat. “The creep thought
he had a shot with her.”
“Where were you when Kat
wrangled you all up to wait
for help?”
“I was looking at DVDs.”
“Did you see anything
suspicious?”
Doug nodded at the bru-
nette doing a crossword
puzzle to his right. “You mean
aside from Tony’s fight with
Dorothy?”
Dorothy’s pen stopped mid-
air. “It was no big deal, Doug.”
Conrad smiled at Dorothy.
“I’d never have the confidence
to do those things in ink.”
Dorothy shrugged. “I don’t
either, normally, but given the
circumstances, I’m trying to
steer clear of pencils.”
“Where were
you when Kat
gathered you
all?”
“In the cook-
books section, I
think,” she said,
eyes gleaming.
“What
was the fight
about?”“The overdue fine he gave
me was $300 more than he said
it would be,” Dorothy sighed.
“I need to pay my rent this
week too, but Tony said if I
didn’t pay it right away, I’d
have to tell it to the judge.”
“That sounds pretty scary,”
Conrad said sympathetically.
Dorothy met Conrad’s eyes,
then waved the whole thing
away. “I’m sure it would have
all worked out.” She lifted her
chin to the third patron at the
table. “There’s a rumor Ellen
was dating him.”
Ellen stared coldly at
Dorothy before turning
her attention to Conrad. “I
wouldn’t date that weasel if
you paid me!” she exclaimed.
“Sounds like somebody got
their heart broken,” Doug said
in a singsong voice.
“At least that means she had
one,” Dorothy mumbled.
Conrad and Johnson stepped
aside. Johnson said, “They
all had means, motive and
opportunity.”
Conrad took a moment. With
a sure nod, she said, “But only
one of our suspects is lying.”
—Amy Hueston
Q: Who murdered
Tony that day?
A : Turn to pg 49Straight to the point
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