29With Dough safely behind bars awaiting charges of k********g, and with the Black Llama on the lam for the time being, my life returned to routine, some of it good, some not so good, most of it pretty dull. Workwise, the only case that came my way was a two-day stint of tailing a businessman's wife to learn whether she was cheating on him. She was. There went another sap's happy holidays.
Meanwhile, Dotty, after taking a day off following her ordeal, returned to work, seemingly unchanged and untroubled. Oh yeah, there was one change. She appeared less obsessed with reading great works of literature. Her obsession had turned to gulls. Every day she brought in pictures of the feathered beasts for me to see and she talked about them incessantly. A case of gulls for the gullible, I noted sil
