“I know I told you how I work backward to solve a case. It isn’t easy, though. We have so many suspects.” Annie doodled on a pad of yellow lined paper with her blue fountain pen.
Mark leaned across the glass kitchen table. “You figure things out intuitively, far as I know. Things just seem to fall in place for you after a while.”
She drew a flow chart in the middle of the foolscap. “Sometimes. See. Here’s what we know. Vernon the boyfriend and possibly lover of Elva. Treasurer of a local foundation that’s strapped for cash. Been dipping into the funds with Elva, according to Nelson. Knew Clarise was changing her will.”
“Yes? He’s number one suspect for me.”
“Then we have Oliver. A nephew who may be disgruntled because he was cut out of the will. Motive? Money, revenge? Not very convinc
