CHAPTER TWELVEBack at International Surety Lindsey found a message from Jack Glessner at Cape ’n’ Dagger. Lindsey jotted a note in his pocket organizer. He didn’t want to talk with Glessner quite yet, so he dialed the number for Comic Cavalcade and left a message asking Morris or Chiu to phone him. For the next hour he left behind the ugly business of a burglary turned murder and caught up on office routine.
And then Officer Plum called. “Ben Zinowicz is in the clear,” she said without preamble. “He had an early morning seminar today. He couldn’t possibly be our man.”
Lindsey said, “Hold on. How can you be so sure?”
“Patterson was still alive when he got to the hospital. We’ve got a preliminary medical report. The full one will take a while. But the pathologist says, with that wound he
