“At the conference center, he told us he went to check the maps’ provenance.”
Tom c****d an eyebrow. “Yup. Craddock says he went into the reading room to use the wi-fi connection and get online to see if the maps had been reported stolen. He didn’t have any luck, because the Web site that map dealers and libraries wanted to set up to report thefts isn’t running yet. He claims he then made a call to an attorney who’s a mad map collector. You ask me, they’re all mad.” Tom paused. “Anyhoo, the lawyer was too busy to talk to him, no surprise there. Larry left a message for the lawyer to return the call, then went back to the corner where he’d first met with Drew. But guess what? No Drew.”
“Right.”
“Timingwise,” Tom went on, “this coincides with what we have on the surveillance video, that D
