CHAPTER 10
I need to talk to you,” I said into the phone to Tom Schulz. I was aware that I was gasping for breath, as if I had just finished running a few miles when all I had done was pick up Patty Sue and drive home.
“What about? You having a heart attack or something?”
“Did you talk to the deputy coroner?” I demanded. “Anything new?”
“Yeah, he said that corpse just jumped out of the grave and told him all kinds of new stuff.”
“Not funny.”
He sighed. “The only thing I found out that I didn’t know already was that there was a foreign substance in her stomach when she died. Looks as if she took some Valium before she did it, settle herself down a little bit.”
“Valium?” I said quickly. “There wasn’t any Valium in her medicine cabinet.”
“Oh boy.” He snorted. “Not in her medicine cabi
