“How was it you happened to find the body?” O’Brian wanted to know.
“Violet didn’t show up for logic class. She teaches a section of Intro to Logic for Professor Revell at nine. Barbara—she’s the department secretary—couldn’t get her on the phone. So I offered to go see what was up.” He took another sip of cola. This time he noticed that it tasted like paper. He figured that maybe they didn’t allow glass in the interview room because you could break it and attack a cop with it. Or hurt yourself.
“How’d you get in?”
Of course that would be the next question. Larry almost said, “Through the door,” but decided the cop wouldn’t appreciate hearing that old joke.
“The door was unlocked,” he lied.
“Was it hanging open?”
“No. I tried the knob and it opened right up.” He pictured Bill doing t
