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Murder, She Wrote: A Vote For Murder
Donald Bain, Jessica Fletcher
Excerpt
FAVOR FOR A FRIEND? “Do you have any idea what this is about,” I asked him
in a low voice.
“About last night, Mrs. Fletcher.”
“What about last night?”
He checked to make sure no one was listening, leaned over
and whispered in my ear, “The senator is really under the
gun, Mrs. Fletcher. I know he asked you for a favor last
night to help Mrs. Nebel through the ordeal of this week,
and what happened at the house with Nikki Farlow.”
Teller accompanied me to the front entrance of the Dirksen
building at First and C Streets where a black town car was
waiting, its engine running. Teller opened the back door
for me. When I was settled with my seatbelt on, he leaned
in and said, “I assure you the senator is deeply grateful
for this, Mrs. Fletcher. Deeply grateful.”
With that, he shut the door, and the driver, a large man
with a shaved head who hadn’t yet acknowledged my presence,
pulled away from the curb.
The air in the car was frigid. I shivered and rubbed my
arms to warm them up. But I wasn’t sure if the chill that
ran through me was from the cold, or from the eerie feeling
I had that I was unwittingly being thrown into a
potentially risky situation...
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