CHAPTER 15: INTO THE FIREMudge brought a chair. Officer Hanlon, gasping for breath, was persuaded to sit.
First he tried to arrest them both, but Rosey Sherman laughed that off. He pointed at the ceiling: Who on the Exmouth police force didn’t know about the Frigate’s state-of-the-art closed-circuit TV cameras? Had Officer Hanlon missed the tour at their grand July Fourth reopening party? Well now, that was too bad. Wally Hicks, who’d installed this award-winning set-up—including the popular CodCast.net website—was away on vacation, but Mudge could show him the control room. Detective Altman was a big fan.
“Pete loves this high-tech stuff.” Rosey Sherman leaned against the fiction shelves. “Does he know you’re here?”
Ricky Hanlon’s answer was a small shake of his head.
“Sorry, I didn’
