Mulrooney"s eyes were burning. He knew he was getting too old to pull all-nighters. He seldom drank caffeine, but he knew he could use a double espresso today. After he and Clarke had extensively questioned Lauren Connolly and Anya Gallien, the two detectives has combed the area for witnesses. When he had finally arrived back at his small clapboard bungalow near Cal State twenty hours later, he had lain awake mulling over the case before he met Clarke again at the autopsy of Dr. Connolly at 8:00 A.M.
The prompt autopsy was unexpected, but there had been no back-up of corpses at the coroner"s office to delay attention to the late doctor. The timing was unusual for a place that Mulrooney often credited for hosting more stiff bodies than an Irish Pub on payday.
As a result of his nonstop mo
