CHAPTER 24Don wasn’t too surprised that the Greek was in Kentucky; if Baskoulos had suspected that his wife had come to Lexington, it would have been the restaurant man’s way to try to trap her with the jockey. But it was a shock to consider the possibility that Baskoulos had murdered the gypsy. The only plausible inference was that, if he had killed her, it must have been because he had conspired with her in tricking Rina. But it wasn’t conceivable the millionaire would be involved in the kidnapping of Timmy Forde; what big operator would mess around with a five-thousand-dollar ransom!
“You’re outside city limits, aren’t you?” he asked the motel clerk.
“Mile over the line. Why?”
“Better ring your state trooper barracks,” Don said.
“What’s happened?” The clerk was agitated. “Somebody h
