“Thank you.”
?Another business card. So far, their investigation amounted to little more to handing out damn cards.
?Chapter 52
“What’s with theprinter thing?” Vaughn asked.
Darnell grabbed the printout, which Vaughn now saw seemed to be random words. The ol’lorem ipsumLatin placeholder text repeated over and over. Then Darnell produced the ad that had been in Josh Perry’s possession. Darnell held them side by side.
“Bowes told me a couple of months back that printed pages are like fingerprints—they can be matched to the exact printer.”
“C’mon, you can’t honestly think that the man we saw back there had anything to do with these murders.”
Darnell shrugged.
“I dunno... math games... being at the site? That creepy mask?”
Vaughn pressed his lips together.
“C’mon, Darnell.”
“Maybe it’s his daughter.”
“For fuck’s sake. She’shelpingus.”
“She’s inserting herself into the case. Guiding us where she wants us to go, where to look. Sure, she might be helping us, but maybe she’s also helpinghim.”
Again, Vaughn found himself entertaining his partner’s ludicrous theories. Couldn’t help it.
“We went toher, we askedherabout the crime scenes, not the other way around.”
Darnell refused to give it up.
“Yeah, sure, butwhy?”
“Why what?”
“Why did we go to her?”
“Because she knows math?”
Darnell shook his head.
“No, we went to her because when I started looking up prime numbers, she was the first name to pop up.”
Now Vaughn understood. Didn’t agree, though.
“You can’t possibly think she posted that video herself so that we would notice her. Besides, even if there was no video, we would have probably eventually gone to the math department to help us out.”
Darnell tilted his head dramatically.
Vaughn hated when his partner did this. Somehow tricked you into saying what he was thinking, then twisting it around.
“To the math department, yes, but probably not specifically to her. I know you’ve got a thing for her, Vaughn. Don’t let that—”
“I don’t have a thing for her.”
“Yeah, right,” he scoffed. “We should interview her. Find out if Ivy has an alibi for the past two nights.”
