Page 76 of Murder on Charity Lane

I mean, he wasn’t wrong. World of Goods was amazing. They saved lives every day, while I focused on staging one more production of Shakespeare. Still, I thought about what Frank DeYoung told me and refused to spiral. I was a playwright. And music, theatre, dance, visual art, literature: they made us human. So maybe I wasn’t saving lives but the work was still important.

And I was trying to help Mrs. B prove CJ’s innocence. Well, not just Mrs. B, Ocean had a hefty stake in the outcome, too. So I texted the Marigold Cottages Murder Collective chat to tell them what I’d learned that morning.

Sophie

Everyone at The New Vic loves

Helene and George

Hamilton

They’re the Kagants, for those just

tuning in. Beard and Bird.

Lily-Ann

Wait! Everyone wait.

Anthony is trying to text.

(Give him a minute.)

Or four.

Anthony

The windwield wiper typos

Typons

Typhoons

Lily-Ann

The windshield wiper tycoons.

Sophie

The only suspicious thing about them

is that they’ve known both Jane and

Karina for decades

Hamilton

We should reconsider the tripwire.

Nicholas

Why not quicksand, Wile E?

Sophie

He doesn’t mean a tripwire-tripwire, Nicholas.

Any kind of trap or mechanism.