The only thing anywhere in the room was a spiral-bound crossword puzzle book. As a fellow crossword aficionado, Myrtle walked closer to get a look at the book, stooping down to see it without touching it.
Rose was apparently the kind of crossword puzzle solver who liked to pen firm answers to the crossword clues in ink. She even jotted down ideas for clues in the margins of the book in pencil until she was sure that the possibility would fit. Then she appeared to erase the penciled-in idea. This alone spoke to her personality. But there was something even more interesting on the page.
Rose had written down seating arrangement? in the margin. But, as Myrtle scanned the puzzle, she couldn’t see a potential clue that fit the answer—or a spot on the puzzle that the answer would fit in. As a
