“Like slippers beside a bed!” Caroline exclaimed. “Oh my heavens. Set there neatly as if she’d just stepped out of them. Edgar, that’s it, isn’t it? She took them off!”
“Mm,” said Edgar, sucking an ice cube.
Mudge’s eyes widened. “She went up the ladder barefoot?”
“Duh!” Lydia shook her head. “I can’t believe I missed that!”
“You weren’t here,” Dinah pointed out.
“We all missed it.” Carlo looked stricken. “We believed Helen. That she stopped by to watch the filming, and there was DeAnne’s body, and she called Kevin Kelly, and then came to find us at the Pig.”
“In point of fact,” Edgar said, “she stopped by looking for Alistair. Very likely they had a date, and he didn’t show up, not for the first time, and she got the message. The bloom was off the rose.”
“For him,” said Carlo. “Not
