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“You sure you don’t want it tested for bloodstains or DNA?”
“No, no, thanks for your trouble, Dino.”
“No trouble,” Dino said, then hung up.
Stone buzzed Joan.
“Yes, boss?”
“Can you come in here for a minute, please?”
“Be right there.” Joan materialized in the doorway. “Yes, sir?”
“Guess whose fingerprints are on my dictionary?”
“Okay: yours, mine, and Helene’s.”
“You missed one.”
“Who?”
“Eddie Jr.’s.”
“Don’t be ridiculous,” she said, then went back to her office.
“I’m going to get to the bottom of this!” he shouted.
“You do that!” she shouted back. “Let me know what you find when you get there!”
THIRTY-THREE
Stone thought about it, then buzzed Joan again.
“Yes, sir?” she said wearily.
“I want you and Helene to go up to Peter’s suite together and make an inventory of everything in it.”
“Everything?”
“Well, not everything. Just any items that aren’t Peter’s.”
“How will we know which ones those are?”
“Helene will know. And I want to know the last time she cleaned the room.”
“All right.” Joan sighed. She hung up.
Twenty minutes later, Joan buzzed.
“That was fast.”
“We didn’t have to go very far.”
“What?”
“The suits in the closet had a tailor’s label, and inside thatwas the name of who it was made for. They were all made for Eddie Jr.”
“Aha!” Stone shouted. “Is there a suitcase there?”
