Chapter Fourteen“I waited outside her place practically all day,” Perrault was telling Dufort. “No sign of her. I thought maybe she’d moved or something, but I checked with some friends, and they said Adèle definitely lives there. Apartment in a converted house on rue Tartine.
“I just asked you to talk to her, I didn’t mean for you to set up a stakeout,” said Dufort with a slight smile.
“You don’t think she’s a suspect? I was figuring anyone related to Desrosiers is on the list until we can cross them off. Who knows how much she might stand to inherit, right?”
“I applaud your persistence,” Dufort said. “Since Desrosiers had no children, there is no légitime, the portion that the law insists go to each child. Nevertheless, she would not have been able to leave every penny to whomever she
