{"id":1109,"date":"2012-04-05T09:37:30","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T14:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fanagrams.com\/blog\/?p=1109"},"modified":"2012-04-05T09:37:30","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T14:37:30","slug":"clean-plate-club-murder-mystery-chapters-26-and-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fanagrams.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/clean-plate-club-murder-mystery-chapters-26-and-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Clean Plate Club Murder Mystery: Chapters 26 and 27"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chapter 26<\/strong><\/p>\n

My nap at Ralph and Fanny\u2019s had put me off kilter and I was wide awake at 5:30 AM, the kind of wide awake where I knew that I might as well get up.\u00a0 I made some coffee and prepared the bill for Sam Todd. \u00a0I thought that I\u2019d make it four days in a row \u2013 I would drive up the canyon once again and deliver it personally.\u00a0 Sam probably wouldn\u2019t be there and I might get a chance to talk to Simba alone.\u00a0 I just couldn\u2019t let this case go without a fight.<\/p>\n

I drummed my fingers on the kitchen table wondering what I could do until it was a reasonable hour, and suddenly I thought of Pat Barnes, the forensic pathologist who was probably working on Penny\u2019s hit and run case.\u00a0 It seemed like weeks ago that I had planned to casually run into her at the fitness center, and this might be the perfect time.\u00a0 I knew that she always worked out early \u2013 sometimes my father worked out with her and they would arrive at work in a sweaty mess and use the showers there.\u00a0 My attendance at the fitness club was sporadic at best.\u00a0 I preferred to find a class to attend, since left to my own schedule I would just use the elliptical until I started to sweat, and then I would call it quits.\u00a0 I trying spinning once, but hated it \u2013 toiling away in the dark with loud techno pop, I just couldn\u2019t handle it.\u00a0 The class I liked the best was strength and conditioning and that is where I had overlapped with Pat before.\u00a0 I fished into my closet for a pair of sweats \u2013 spandex was not a good look for me \u2013 and found a ratty old tee shirt.\u00a0 I grabbed my sweatshirt and found an old punch card for drop in classes.\u00a0 It was outdated by a year, but unless they changed the colors of the card, this would probably work.<\/p>\n

I was always amazed at the number of people committed to working out before work \u2013 I hate to sweat and it often takes me a long time to cool down, sometimes over an hour.\u00a0 I can take a shower, and then find myself still sweating once I get out \u2013 not a good look for business.\u00a0 But today the morning stretched ahead of me and the next appointment was at lunch time to discuss real estate with Mary.\u00a0 Besides, I had been sedentary for the past 4 days, so I was ready to give it a go.\u00a0 There were about 10 of us in the group, but unfortunately no Pat Barnes, at least not yet \u2013 she was always ran late.\u00a0 The well-muscled instructor cranked up the music and told us we would be working with both light and heavy weights.\u00a0 Some of the women were showing off with 15 pound heavy weights, while I realistically designated the 5 pound weights as both my lights and heavies.\u00a0 I actually liked doing the squats and I had to admit the exercise felt good.<\/p>\n

Then from behind me came, \u201cBlue I would recognize you anywhere with those ratty sweats and you can\u2019t handle anything more than 5 pounds?\u201d<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t need to turn around.\u00a0 I recognized Pat\u2019s raspy voice.\u00a0 \u201cPat, I envy you with our regular schedule, even though you do have to work in a basement.\u00a0 And I bet your strong biceps come from heaving stiffs around every day.\u00a0 I, on the other hand, spent a beautiful day yesterday driving up the coast highway with the top down unraveling the stories of the living.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, yeah, yeah, I have heard it all before, the basement stuff, the necrophilia, not much I haven\u2019t heard, and yes I will take the regular work hours any day, and sometimes a body is much more informative that a dozen of your interviews.\u201d<\/p>\n

By this time she had moved up into my row and we worked out in unison for a few minutes until the instructor told us to lie down on our mats for a little leg work.\u00a0 Pat and I both knew that we were teasing each other, we had often talked about how the perfect job would be some sort of combination of both of ours.\u00a0 There were certain stretches of time when I was just fed up with people and their secrets and I would like nothing better than to work quietly in a cool basement with a corpse.\u00a0 And Pat admitted that sometimes she could get squirrely in a basement.<\/p>\n

\u201cHey, Grimes told me that you are peripherally involved with our hit and run case, that gal with all the tattoos,\u201d said Pat.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, I am very peripheral, I am trying to locate one of her friends – Dessa Todd.\u00a0 I saw that accident scene, and looks like you got lucky that it occurred in an area where there are CCTVs.\u00a0 I think that there is one at the traffic light and also at an ATM machine.\u00a0 Any luck in identifying the car?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know I can\u2019t tell you much, I just established that she died of multiple internal injuries and we are still waiting on the tox screen, but I did hear Grimes say that they are looking for a black Lexus, license plate was indistinct, but you didn\u2019t hear it from me.\u201d<\/p>\n

My inner thighs were now killing me, and I saw that Pat was still exercising effortlessly even though she was wearing ankle weights.\u00a0 We now headed into abs, but I just lay down on the mat and looked at the ceiling as I talked with Pat.\u00a0 I decided to stir the pot a bit more.\u00a0 \u201cI am sure Grimes has checked the car registrations of the Todd family, though it is not clear to me what the possible motive could be, but here\u2019s a tip for you \u2013 you might want to check the car registrations of Henry Murphy, you know that guy who lives in that crumbling old mansion down by the beach.\u201d<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know why I said that.\u00a0 I had no reason to think that Henry Murphy had anything to do with Penny, except that he had lied about her. \u00a0But I just didn\u2019t like him \u2013 based on our conversation at his gate earlier today and how he was treating his mother.\u00a0 I think that I was still smarting from my abrupt dismissal just when it looked like the case was breaking.\u00a0 It was just intuition, but it made Pat also lie on the mat and stare at the ceiling, \u201cHenry Murphy, are you asking me to run some plates on him?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo Pat, I just know that Penny had a couple of run-ins with Henry Murphy, and if you really want to irritate him you can call him by his nick name Polly.\u00a0\u00a0 I was only trying to locate Dessa and anyway I think that I am off the case now.\u00a0 You know, I met Penny once and I liked her.\u00a0 Just a hunch, might want to follow up on it if you have no other leads.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell Liza, I am wondering about the coincidence of us meeting here, and if you have information why don\u2019t you call Grimes himself.\u00a0 I am sure that he would appreciate any tips, I\u2019m just the pathologist.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, Pat do whatever you want with the information, I could call Grimes, but I saw you, and it was a coincidence that we are here together.\u201d\u00a0 The instructor then stood up and gave us a big shush and pointed us out of the room.\u00a0\u00a0 We both resumed our abs, though I could see that Pat was able to get her whole back off the floor, while I was just able to lift my neck.<\/p>\n

We filed out together when the work out was over, and I suggested that we have a cup of coffee.\u00a0 I wanted to reassure her that I was not trying to pump her for information, and I don\u2019t think that I really was, although it would be nice to know Penny\u2019s tox screen.\u00a0 But she declined saying that she needed to get to work and shower and change.\u00a0 We talked on our way out to the parking lot and she brought me up to date on the status of several mutual friends in the department.\u00a0 We stood chatting together for a few minutes and by the time we got into our cars and went our separate ways, the conversation about Penny and the black Lexus just melted into our background chatter.\u00a0 I could not be sure that Pat would follow up on my suggestion, and truthfully I felt a little remorseful about even mentioning it.\u00a0 If I truly thought that Henry had something to do with Penny, I should call Grimes, but that would raise the stakes and Grimes would want to know about these run-ins between Penny and Henry.\u00a0 I then would have to tell him about my visit at the nursing home, and if I ever wanted to regain the Todds as clients, I didn\u2019t need Grimes knocking at their door and mentioning my name.\u00a0 Better to plant a little seed with Pat \u2013 I knew that she attended weekly interdepartmental conferences on open murder cases, and she might mention it. \u00a0I was also confident that Pat would claim the insight as her very own. \u00a0I had no idea what leads the police had developed and if the idea of Henry Murphy fit in with some of their vague suspicions, then maybe they would pick up on it.<\/p>\n

When I got back home, I found a couple of messages waiting for me.\u00a0 One was from Mary confirming lunch, another message from Nick Nichol, which I could ignore for the moment, and then another message where the caller promptly hung up.\u00a0 I looked at the phone and saw that it was a local number, and I decided to call the number back on my untraceable cell.\u00a0 If I used my regular cell phone, the recipient could see my name on the caller ID and elect not to answer.\u00a0 A better plan was to use a phone that ID\u2019d me only as \u201cOut of Area.\u201d\u00a0 Whenever I got this type of message on my home phone I would never answer it because I knew that it was a telemarketer, but rarely would a telemarketer call a cell phone. \u00a0\u00a0The phone rang a few times and then a soft women\u2019s voice said hello, but there was no caller ID.\u00a0 I responded, \u201cThis is Liza Blue returning your call.\u00a0 You called my cell phone about one hour ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat must have been a wrong number, I\u2019m terribly sorry,\u201d said the woman.\u00a0 I could hear a man\u2019s voice in the background saying, \u201cI told you not to call her.\u00a0 Hang up now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDessa is that you?\u201d I said, but the woman hung up quickly.\u00a0 If Dessa had called me, it meant one of two things, either she had gotten the phone number from Goddard, and that was potentially his voice in the background, or she had gotten the number from the caregiver at Great Days, which meant that she had returned for another visit.\u00a0 Of course, perhaps it was a wrong number after all, but the strain in the woman\u2019s voice suggested otherwise.\u00a0 I was being pulled back into the case, and I had seen it before.\u00a0 Members of a deeply dysfunctional family often latched onto an interested and neutral bystander.\u00a0 I had fit the bill already with Goddard, and now maybe with Dessa.<\/p>\n

When I got out of the shower, I noticed the message light lit up again and this time it was Simba.\u00a0 I called her back quickly and she answered right away.\u00a0 \u201cMs. Blue, I am sorry that my husband was so rude to you last night.\u00a0 I overheard you mention that you would give us a final presentation and I would like to take you up on that offer.\u00a0 I will be down in the town for a luncheon, would you able to meet me this afternoon at the Art Museum in the caf\u00e9 there \u2013 it is called the Artist\u2019s Retreat and it will be very private.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, Mrs. Todd, I would be happy to meet you, will your husband be joining us?\u00a0 It is usually best to talk with all family members at once.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOh no, Mr. Todd is out of town today, and actually I think that it would be better not to mention it to him.\u00a0 He seems to think that it is enough to know that our Dessa is still alive, but I would like to know more.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think that is asking too much is it?\u00a0 Sam told me that you saw her.\u00a0 Where was she and how did she look?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, I just think that I saw her.\u00a0 It was inCutterCityat Penny Knox\u2019s funeral.\u00a0 That is the girl with the tattoos that was up at your house for lunch.\u00a0 She left the funeral very suddenly and I was not able to introduce myself, but her name was in the guest book, so I am pretty sure that it was her.\u00a0 She was by herself.\u00a0 And then she was also spotted at the Great Days nursing home visiting your mother.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mother at Great Days?\u00a0 How extraordinary.\u00a0 I, of course, am not welcome there,\u201d\u00a0 her voice trailed off.<\/p>\n

\u201cMrs. Todd, we can discuss this more when we meet this afternoon, but Dessa was seen having an argument with your brother Henry.\u201d\u00a0 I told her this detail just to get her thinking before our meeting but the reaction was immediate.<\/p>\n

\u201cHenry was there?\u00a0 My brother Henry?\u00a0 You told Sam that?\u00a0 Now I know why he cut you off so quickly.\u00a0 Sam will have nothing to do with Henry.\u00a0 If he thinks that Dessa has a relationship with Henry, that means that he cannot have a relationship with his own daughter.\u00a0\u00a0 You can\u2019t imagine how difficult this has been for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMrs. Todd, I think that there might be a logical explanation here.\u00a0 According to your mother\u2019s caregiver, Dessa was there standing up for your mother and making sure that she gets the best care.\u00a0 I will give you a full report this afternoon, but for the moment I think that I can tell you that Dessa does not seem to be in any danger.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you very much Ms. Blue, I will see you at 2 PM at the Artist\u2019s Retreat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chapter 27<\/strong><\/p>\n

The restaurant Mary had picked out was the Sea Grille, certainly fancier than what was needed.\u00a0 I certainly wasn\u2019t thinking fast food \u2013 one of my requirements for \u201ceating out\u201d was a wait staff and a real plate. Even though it was pricey, the Sea Grille was casual enough and a popular place for lunch and had a nice outdoor terrace.\u00a0 It would be interesting to see if Mary grabbed for her credit card to split the bill, but I was guessing that she wouldn\u2019t.\u00a0 And then there was the issue of parking \u2013 there was valet parking, but I always made a few trips around the block before I succumbed to this indulgence.\u00a0 On the second trip around the block I spotted Mary getting out of her sporty red BMW and hand her keys to the valet.\u00a0 I decided I might as well pull in behind her in my dirty Prius.\u00a0 Mary was wearing a tightly tailored jacket with a low cut white shirt just peeking out.\u00a0 Her skirt was shockingly short and her heels looked dangerously high.\u00a0 She smiled and waved when she saw me.\u00a0 \u201cLiza, it is so great to see you.\u00a0 I feel so lucky that we both had this luncheon slot open.\u00a0 How many times have we tried and failed?\u201d\u00a0 She gave me an air kiss in the vicinity of each cheek, and I could smell\u00a0 some sort of sticky cologne and got a close up of her thick make-up.\u00a0 In contrast to her, I was totally unadorned from every sensory perspective.<\/p>\n

\u201cMary, you look so glamorous and chic.\u00a0 You look fabulous,\u201d\u00a0 I said and I mostly meant it.\u00a0 In junior high, I got to know her because we both lived on the edge of town and were the last bus stops.\u00a0 I considered her a friend, mostly because we were both fringe players at the edge of the cool boy-crazy clique.\u00a0 We both knew that we would never belong with the social elite \u2013 we both lived in undesirable neighborhoods, me in an apartment and Mary in a small bungalow house, we did not belong to any country clubs, and my father was a cop, and hers was a locksmith.\u00a0 But the key difference was that I was comfortable with my social standing while Mary craved acceptance.\u00a0 She would pour over fashion magazines and watch what the other kids were wearing and get her mother, who was an excellent seamstress, to copy them for her.\u00a0 Unfortunately Mary was a large girl and the styles looked laughable on her chunky figure.\u00a0 A face full of acne didn\u2019t help either.\u00a0 Now 20 years later, she had totally transformed herself into the stereotypical Santa Teresian woman, thin, fit, tan and overdressed.\u00a0 I had to hand it to her, she had scratched her way through the glass ceiling.\u00a0 I had even seen that she was a co-chair of the Children\u2019s Aid Society Spring Ball.\u00a0 This was not the top tier of charities \u2013 she would not be mingling with the likes of Simba quite yet \u2013 but she had established a beach head for herself that had served her well in the real estate world.\u00a0 I think that our relationship, such that it was, was based on the fact that she could use me as a touchstone \u2013 let her remember how far she had come since those painful days in junior high.\u00a0 Just as importantly I was absolutely no competition and she also knew that I just didn\u2019t care.<\/p>\n

\u201cLiza, you look great too, doesn\u2019t look like you have changed a bit since high school.\u00a0 How do you do it?\u201d\u00a0 Mary turned to the waiter, \u201c I have asked Felipe here to give us my usual table on the outside deck, it is such a beautiful day.\u00a0 Here why don\u2019t you take the view of the ocean \u2013 I have just about the same view from my office, not that I spend that much time there.\u00a0 Actually, I consider this restaurant my field office.\u00a0 I have closed dozens of deals right at this table and I always let the client have the view.\u201d<\/p>\n

When we sat down I realized that her real agenda was to face the restaurant entrance so that she could see everyone as they entered.\u00a0 Already she had waved at two people and just as Felipe had seated us and given us the leather bound menus she hopped up and said, \u201cLiza, will you excuse me for a minute, I just want to say a quick hi to my friend Dolores over there.\u00a0 We are on a board together and she had missed the past couple of meetings.\u00a0 Her daughter moved back into town during her divorce and has been living in Dolores\u2019 guest house.\u00a0 Not too shabby, since the guest house has both pool and beach access, but my guess is that she might want a place of her own about now.\u201d\u00a0 Mary flitted across the room.<\/p>\n

I sat by myself gazing out at the ocean for at least 15 minutes while Mary stopped by three more tables.\u00a0 As she sat down she motioned again for Felipe, \u201cSorry Liza, but I am sure you know the importance of cultivating clients.\u00a0 Felipe knows that I always order the same thing, a Caprese Salad with a glass of Chardonnay.\u00a0 How about you?\u00a0 They really have the best vinaigrette here.\u201d\u00a0 I nodded in agreement and we handed the menus back to Felipe.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo tell me what you learned aboutSkyeIslandand the Coastal Estates,\u201d I said, grateful that I had her full attention for the moment.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh yes, I went an open house, and what a tragedy.\u00a0 Here is this beautiful piece of property with beach access, and what can I say, it\u2019s just cheap.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if you\u2019d pick up on these things, but realtors notice immediately \u2013 the doors are hollow, the showers are prefab, no hardwood floors, counters are Corian.\u00a0 Nobody uses Corian anymore, you just have to use granite.\u00a0 A brand new house and it is basically a tear down \u2013 they\u2019ll be lucky if they can even sell that house for land value.\u00a0 I was thinking that this must be the stupidest developer ever and then I discovered that the developer is none other than Henry Murphy.\u00a0 You would think that he would get better advice from his brother-in-law Sam Todd, who is a very successful realtor.\u00a0 Then another colleague said that Henry and Sam absolutely hate each other, some sort of longstanding family feud.\u00a0 He thought that Henry was trying to upstage Sam\u2019sSkyeIslandwith his development.\u00a0 You know that Coastal Estates could have been a big success if it was done right \u2013 even in this market.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s too bad, and I suppose it doesn\u2019t help that the old Murphy house is in such disrepair,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh yes, and that\u2019s another point.\u00a0 I have to work with banks a lot and I have developed contacts with some of the bankers who have given me tips on houses that are about to be short sales or foreclosed on \u2013 sometimes this is useful information for a buyer \u2013 if they wait a couple of months they might get a good deal on a short sale.\u00a0 Anyway, I gave one a call, and I got lucky, both Skye View and Coastal Estates have used the same mortgage lender, and both of these properties are on the brink \u2013 Skye View might be a foreclosure, Coastal Estates might be a short sale.\u201d<\/p>\n

Our salads had arrived and I could tell that Mary\u2019s attention was now faltering as her eyes flitted back to the entrance and she smiled and waved again to another table.\u00a0 She could have easily given me this juicy nugget over the phone, so there must be something else on her agenda.\u00a0 As she finished eating her salad, she leaned down and pulled a few sheets from her briefcase and set them on the table. \u201cLiza, I think that I spoke too harshly aboutSkyeIslandthe other day.\u00a0 There actually might be some opportunity there.\u00a0 I think that if the property is positioned correctly it could sell.\u00a0 The current realtor talks about seclusion and privacy, and I think that is putting people off, they think that they will be living in some sort of East Bumble Fuck.\u00a0 I think that Syke Isle needs to be repositioned as privacy with access, and frankly I think that you could make a case that the canyon property is more desirable than the beach.\u00a0 There is lots of traffic on the beach, people are constantly trespassing on your beach and the taxes are high.\u00a0 With a little savvy you can change cachet.\u00a0 You might remember about 20 years ago North Santa Teresa was the cachet address and ads referred to a \u201cprestigious,\u201d \u201cexclusive\u201d or \u201csought after\u201d address, but now South Santa Teresa is just as desirable.\u00a0 I need to make that same transition happen for Skye Isle.\u00a0 Most people moving into Santa Teresa could care less about these labels and see South Santa Teresa for what it is \u2013 great houses, great neighborhoods and lower taxes.\u00a0 I had one couple that looked at both North and South and chose South Santa Teresa for the simple reason that all the utility lines are underground there.\u00a0 And I had never thought about it before, but North Santa Teresa is cluttered with telephone poles, and it is ugly.\u00a0 So what do you think, this is just a mock up of my pitch to Sam Todd to be the exclusive realtor forSkyeIsland.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMary, I really don\u2019t know the Todds well at all, I actually have met them just a couple of times, and right now I maybe on the outs with them, so I don\u2019t think that I can be of direct help to you, but if it comes up I will certainly mention your name as one of the hardest working realtors that I know.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mary hardly registered my comments and continued on, \u201cYou see I think that knowing that tidbit about the family feud between Henry and Sam might help me, because I will position Skye Island as way more desirable than the Coastal Estates, even mention that their proximity to that crumbling old mansion is a disadvantage \u2013 I think that would feed his ego, wouldn\u2019t it?\u00a0 And then I think that I have a way that he could stay out of foreclosure \u2013\u00a0\u00a0 always better for the seller to do a short sale, it\u2019s not as devastating to your credit score.\u00a0 The problem is the lender will only accept a short sale if there is an established value for the property, and there are no comparables up in the canyon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mary was now talking at such an accelerated pace that I just nodded my head in syncopated intervals.\u00a0 \u201cAll I\u2019d have to do is sell one piece or property to establish a comparable and I think that I have a creative way of doing that.\u00a0 I am still on the woman\u2019s board of the Coastal Conversancy and I would like to move up to the real board, that\u2019s where the action is and where all the heavy hitters are, and it\u2019s about time people recognized me as a heavy hitter in this town.\u00a0 Anyway, perhaps I could bring Sam together with this group, and have a discussion about setting up some conservation easements in exchange for finding a way of creatively financing at least one of the parcels.\u00a0 Don\u2019t you think that this would be a win-win all the way around?\u201d<\/p>\n

She finally stopped, took a deep breath, finished off her third glass of wine and looked at me expectantly.\u00a0 \u201cMary I have always loved your fearless creativity, and I would love it if that canyon became partly public land.\u00a0 I think that the best thing I could do is introduce you to Nick Nichol, I know him well, and he is the publicist for Sam Todd and also has worked with Simba Todd.<\/p>\n

\u201cNick Nichol, you know him?\u00a0 And he knows Simba also?\u00a0 I love what he has done with his career, starting from the bottom as a reported and working his way up to a PR agent.\u00a0 Oh, I would love to talk to Nick Nichol about lots of things \u2013 not just about Skye Isle.\u00a0 Yes, yes, yes, could you set up a meeting for me?\u201d<\/p>\n

I quickly agreed, since I knew that once the offer was made, Mary would call me constantly until she actually met Nick.\u00a0 We had finished our salads and the bill was discretely placed between us.\u00a0 At that very moment, Mary jumped up and went off to greet another table.\u00a0 I smiled to myself as I ponied up for the entire bill.<\/p>\nFollow Liza Blue on: \"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>Share: \"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"reddit\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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