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“May I make a suggestion?”
“Of course.”
“Give your household staff a ten percent raise. It will stand you in good stead with them.”
“What a good idea!”
“I’m glad you think so.”
The phone rang. Joan answered the one on Stone’s desk, then handed it to him. “Dino.”
“Good morning, Commissioner.”
“Yeah, sure. You know where I can put my hands on Eddie Jr.?”
“He was parked outside my house last time I knew that, so you had a shot.”
“That didn’t work out.”
“He’s living at the Yale Club, I think.”
“Well, he’s got some stuff there, but no sign of his corpus. Does he have another address?”
“I don’t think so. Annetta’s will barred him from her customary lairs. And we’ve changed the locks on all of those. Do you have a charge?”
“I’m thinking murder one,” Dino said.
“You finally think he killed Annetta?”
“Who else would profit from her death?”
“Well, Joan would and did. But she’s hardly a suspect.”
“We’ve already removed her name from the list.”
“Eddie won’t profit from Annetta’s death, either. She left him a generous bequest in a trust, but cut him off from everything else.”
“Did Eddie know that at the time?”
“I don’t know. She may have told him. Or she may have just let him find out about it later, when she wouldn’t be present for the resulting tantrum.”
“Okay, then. He can try proving at his trial that he didn’t know he was disinherited.”
“He can certainly try.”
“Can he bring a civil suit about the will?”
“Sure, but he won’t win. She had no obligation to tell him that she had cut him off at the knees.”
“Then we can make a case that he thought he was inheriting everything.”
“Why not? Given the life he’s led, he must have donesomethingthat he should do time for.”
“Has he got any hangouts where we might find him?”
“Well, he used to hang out at P. J. Clarke’s now and again, but after his last visit there, he won’t be welcome anymore. Of course, that may not stop him from trying to get a table. The guy is brazen.”
“That will make it all the more fun when we catch up to him.”
