{"id":1429,"date":"2012-08-19T19:54:15","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T00:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fanagrams.com\/blog\/?p=1429"},"modified":"2012-08-19T19:54:45","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T00:54:45","slug":"clean-plate-club-murder-mystery-chapters-37-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fanagrams.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/clean-plate-club-murder-mystery-chapters-37-38\/","title":{"rendered":"Clean Plate Club Murder Mystery: Chapters 37-38"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chapter 37<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>I moved away from the bridge tables quickly, but had lost sight of Simba.\u00a0 As I looked frantically around I heard my name.<\/p>\n

\u201cLiza, fancy meeting you here.\u00a0 This cannot be a coincidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGrimes, are you here for a little bridge?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I don\u2019t play bridge, but that was quite a show with your clients.\u00a0 I can\u2019t imagine that you were really here to play bridge.\u201d<\/p>\n

I was caught again, not knowing how much he knew and how much I could successfully dissemble, and I jealously remembered how effectively Sam Todd had manipulated Grimes a couple of days ago.\u00a0 Yes, the fine art of dissembling, of telling just the right amount of truth.\u00a0 \u201cYes I was actually here to make contact with Henry Murphy \u2013 who is very elusive.\u00a0 But I had no idea that his sister was going to show up.\u00a0 My role in the case has changed, you know.\u00a0 I am trying to be the family mediator between these two siblings, and as you can see, I might be a little bit out of my depth.\u00a0 So what are you doing here?\u201d<\/p>\n

“Hmm, it\u2019s a beautiful Saturday isn\u2019t it, and I thought that I would come down to the beach to see if there was a black Lexus, but that weirdo arrives on a kiddy scooter.\u00a0 That was you wasn\u2019t it, that gave the pathologist Pat Barnes the tip, couldn\u2019t figure out where she came up with that, but now that I see you here, I remember that you were friends.\u00a0 It was you wasn’t it?\u201d<\/p>\n

I felt that I was losing our verbal joust; I was clearly on the defensive here.\u00a0 \u201cSure Pat and I talked about the case at the gym the other day \u2013 and I had just had a run in with Henry Murphy and I really didn\u2019t like him and I don\u2019t know, you know that Penny Knox was nosing around Simba and Sam\u2019s house, and Henry had reported a break in at his house and I thought it might be Penny also.\u00a0 It was just an impulse, as you can see this family is just really screwed up, but believe me Grimes, I don\u2019t have any direct evidence that Henry is at all involved with Penny\u2019s death.\u00a0\u00a0 Besides, it isn\u2019t any of my business, all I\u2019m trying to do right now is to get Henry and Simba talking again.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo did you ever find the daughter Dessa?\u00a0 Sure would be nice to talk with her,\u201d said Grimes gruffly.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe seems to be out and about around Santa Teresa, and just chooses not to be in touch with her family.\u00a0 That was good enough for Sam Todd,\u201d which was truthful enough.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got a strange call this morning from a Carla Piccinini, all weepy, saying that some woman had told her that Penny was mixed up with the Todd’s, and maybe they killed her.\u00a0 Now that wouldn\u2019t be you would it? Since according to you Penny Knox is no longer any of your business.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGrimes, give me a break.\u00a0 I was looking for Dessa, but now I\u2019m not.\u00a0 I was just following up on leads, and I can\u2019t help it if I get ahead of your police force.\u00a0 I\u2019m surprised that you did not interview Penny\u2019s mother already.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat Piccinini woman is her mother?\u00a0 Johnny Knox told me that her mother was long ad.\u00a0 I guess I have to give you credit, Liza, and I am going up to talk with Carla on Monday \u2013 seems that she works weekends.\u00a0 I don\u2019t suppose you want to tell me why Penny was snooping around the Todd\u2019s?\u201d<\/p>\n

I just rolled my eyes.\u00a0 It was satisfying to be so far ahead of him on this case.\u00a0 Grimes had always treated me fairly, but not with the same respect as he regarded my father and his detective skills.\u00a0 Maybe I had bought a little more respect, but I had also bought a couple of days head start to pull this case together \u2013 not that it was a\u00a0 competition, but I could fairly tell myself that I wanted to protect my clients as much as possible.\u00a0\u00a0 But once he talked with Carla, he would get onto the Sylvia Wister angle, and then he might really start to hone in the Todd\u2019s.\u00a0 Grimes had his own white board and a whole squad room who would only be too eager to rip apart the Todd family.<\/p>\n

Just as I was walking away, Grimes yelled, \u201cYou know he does have a black Lexus.\u00a0 The pictures we have from the CCTV at the ATM are not clear, but it looks like the plates are at the least a partial match.\u00a0 I know that you are not looking for Dessa, but when you see here, tell that we need to talk.\u201d<\/p>\n

My back was to Grimes, but I was sure that Grimes saw me nod my head in agreement.<\/p>\n

Chapter 38<\/strong><\/p>\n

As I walked by the Starbucks, there was Simba, calmly sitting at a table by the window drinking a tall glass of ice tea.\u00a0 She waved me in when she saw me.<\/p>\n

\u201cSimba, congratulations, that was quite a performance at the beach.\u201d\u00a0 I saw a quick look of annoyance flutter across her face so I backtracked, \u201cI\u2019m sorry \u2018performance\u2019 is not the correct word at all.\u00a0 What I meant to say was that I was very impressed at the way you held your own against your brother.\u00a0 That took a lot of courage.\u201d<\/p>\n

She turned to me with a broad smile on her face.\u00a0 \u201cI was great wasn\u2019t I?\u00a0 It felt really good, and I had forgotten how good it feels to stand up for yourself.\u00a0 And you know, I don\u2019t think that I could have done it one on one with that idiot brother of mine \u2013 I knew that I had to stay strong if there was an entire audience watching.\u00a0 It was perfect.\u00a0 I was on time for our Starbuck\u2019s appointment, but I was just frozen in my car.\u00a0 And I watched you throw yourself into a confrontational situation \u2013 just walked right up and joined that group of men, so I thought that I should just do the same.\u00a0 You\u2019ve given me the courage Liza and now I am ready for the battle ahead.\u00a0 We\u2019re a team now, aren\u2019t we?\u201d<\/p>\n

Simba was just giddy with excitement, and I knew that I had to calm her down.\u00a0 \u201cSimba that was a great start, your brother knows that you are serious and ready to resolve some old issues, but let\u2019s take this slowly.\u00a0 Why don\u2019t you start by telling me what you found out at the nursing home?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOh that was heartbreaking to find Chloe like that \u2013 all those years wasted, all those years when I have been pushed around by my husband and my brother.\u00a0 Chloe couldn\u2019t say anything, but I know that she recognized me.\u00a0 She took my hand and just kept patting it, and there were tears in her eyes.\u00a0 I think that she had been waiting for me \u2013 maybe waiting for years and years.\u201d\u00a0 Simba had veered from exuberance to quietly crying and I handed her a napkin in commiseration.\u00a0 \u201cThe nurses said that Chloe had never been more animated.\u00a0 One of the nurses \u2013 the one that had met you in fact \u2013 took a picture of the two of us together and we put in a frame by her table.\u00a0 I am so glad that you told me to go there \u2013 that\u2019s what started me off.\u201d<\/p>\n

I left the conversation idle while Simba collected herself.\u00a0 She looked wistfully out over the ocean for about a minute and when she looked back at me, her lips were pursed and she was in full attack mode again.\u00a0 \u201cAnd then I talked with the director Great Days, and the things that he told me about Henry were just unconscionable.\u00a0 Chloe has plenty of money, I know that she does, since our father explained his will before he died.\u00a0 So she starts out there in an apartment of her own, but slowly has moved down the ladder, because Henry was always late in paying, and then only paid in dribs and drabs.\u00a0 Great Days were very generous with her \u2013 they could have kicked her out a long time ago, but then Henry would come up with just enough money to let her stay, but finally they had to transfer her to a shared room.\u00a0 And remember what I told you the other day that it would be good for Chloe to have a roommate, well please forget that I ever said something so insensitive.\u00a0 You must have thought that I was an ungrateful wretch, didn\u2019t you?\u201d<\/p>\n

Simba reached out to put her hand over mind, as worried wrinkles emerged through the layers of Botox.\u00a0 \u201cSimba, I have learned long ago not to judge when it comes to family dynamics,\u201d I said, \u201cbut I am certainly glad you had a chance to see for yourself.\u00a0 Your mother, or stepmother, is certainly a lovely woman.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYes she is, isn\u2019t she, full of dignity even though her memory is so clouded.\u00a0 And I really do think of her as my mother, she raised me and I didn\u2019t make it easy you know.\u00a0 I had a very wild period, which is how I ended up in Cutter City in the first place.\u00a0 But anyway, there she was withering away in Great Days, and who should swoop in to the rescue, but Dessa.\u00a0 I am so proud of that girl, and what she must think of me, leaving Chloe like that.\u00a0 You know I wouldn\u2019t blame her if she doesn\u2019t want to see me right now, and that is okay, I have a lot of catching up to do, I\u2019ve got to show her that I\u2019m worthy of her respect, and the first thing I need to do is straighten out Chloe\u2019s situation.\u00a0 I\u2019m even thinking of moving her up to our house in Skye Isle.\u00a0 We have a two bedroom guest house up there you know \u2013 it\u2019s never been used.\u00a0 It would be perfect for Chloe and a caretaker, but to do that I would have to become Chloe\u2019s guardian, and that\u2019s why I said that I\u2019d hired a lawyer to Henry, but of course I haven\u2019t quite got around to that detail yet.\u00a0 But it really scared Henry, don\u2019t you think?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYes I do think that it set him off, and he did say that you could be the guardian,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, but I also scared him, don\u2019t you think?\u00a0 And I think that it has to do with the money \u2013 actually most things have to do with the money don\u2019t they?\u00a0 That\u2019s something that I want to change in my life also, and I think that Dessa will appreciate that, don\u2019t you?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSimba, I don\u2019t know Dessa at all, but from what I have learned second hand, it seems like she is a confused girl trying to make sense of her life.\u00a0 She has lived a life of great privilege, but to her credit, it does not look like she has tried to take advantage of that.\u201d\u00a0 I wondered if Simba was going to pick up on my implicit comparison to Goddard.\u00a0 \u201cI think that honesty is what will really impress her.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, I might have lost Goddard a while ago, but I am going to fight for Dessa.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t give up on Goddard.\u00a0 I have met with him several times, and I really liked him, and you heard what my friends Ralph and Fanny said.\u00a0 It\u2019s just that I think that he\u2019s really confused also, and probably looking for the same things as Dessa.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, it\u2019s really hard to grow up when you have such crappy parents,\u201d said Simba quietly.<\/p>\n

Time to pull out my amateur life coaching skills and get her settled somewhere between her excitement over her new found confidence and her despair over her parenting skills.\u00a0 \u201cOkay, Simba, now suck it up.\u00a0 You\u2019re moving forward now, so give yourself a break.\u00a0 Let\u2019s strategize some more about Henry.\u00a0 Unfortunately you are right, most things do have to do with money, and can you think why Henry hasn\u2019t paid Chloe\u2019s nursing home bills?\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, it\u2019s obvious.\u00a0 Come on, don\u2019t you think he must\u2019ve stolen all of Chloe\u2019s money?\u00a0 It\u2019s probably pretty simple to do since he\u2019s her guardian.\u00a0 I bet he spent all of her money on some sort of crazy investment.\u00a0 That Coastal Estates development comes to mind.\u00a0 Sam used to laugh about that one, said that Henry was going to lose his shirt, and maybe he did.\u00a0 And guess what else.\u00a0 I had my banker friend look at Dessa\u2019s account \u2013 I\u2019m not supposed to tell anyone, since it\u2019s not quite legal, but ever since Chloe went into the nursing home, there have been monthly withdrawals from Dessa\u2019s account, so I think that Henry might have somehow been using Dessa\u2019s money to pay for Chloe.\u00a0 Henry must have been embezzling money somehow.\u00a0 Don\u2019t you think?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, that sounds very possible, and that certainly will be an issue for the lawyers, so you are right to call one. But hopefully we can make contact with Dessa first, and hear her side of the story.\u00a0 I suppose that it is possible that she agreed to pay for Chloe, perhaps with the encouragement of Henry.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, yes, I can just see Henry doing that,\u201d said Simba.\u00a0 \u201cTelling Dessa that since Chloe had been giving her money, it was now her responsibility to pay for Chloe.\u00a0 Dessa is so sweet, I just imagine her doing it.\u00a0 I never thought of it that way, but you\u2019re right.\u00a0 When I talk to Henry, I can\u2019t accuse him of anything just yet.\u00a0 I need to be the better person here, which shouldn\u2019t be too hard since he called me a whore and a slut.\u00a0 Can you \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0imagine saying such a thing to a sister in public?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSimba, I was very impressed with your poise at that moment,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, it really wasn\u2019t very hard,\u201d she laughed, \u201cWho\u2019s going to believe someone like him, on a children\u2019s scooter for God\u2019s sake, and walking around massaging his ears with Q tips. Perhaps he should swap places with Chloe \u2013 now there\u2019s an idea.\u00a0 Okay, seriously what do you think that we should do?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSimba, a couple of days ago, you asked me to be a family mediator and I do think that I can help.\u00a0 But I want you to realize that this isn\u2019t my specific training, and if you want a professional I can certainly find you one.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLiza, I think that you understand more about our family in a couple of days, compared to a life time of therapists.\u00a0 I trust you, and I trust your common sense.\u00a0 I think that is what I really need, good practical advice.\u00a0 So go ahead, what do you think?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, I think that the best approach is to set up the meeting to discuss Chloe\u2019s care, but I also think that we should be prepared to address Henry\u2019s longstanding hatred for your husband.\u00a0 Do you have any idea what that is based on?\u00a0 It seems like that\u2019s why you have been shut out of Chloe\u2019s life for all these years.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell first you have to know that Henry is a first class snob, so of course he was going to hate anyone from Cutter City.\u00a0 You\u2019ll find it hard to believe that when I was a teenager, I used to hang out in Cutter City\u2013 I started by doing a community service project there, and met some very interesting people, including Sam.\u00a0 Henry knew that I was sneaking out, taking Dad\u2019s car down there at night, sometimes not coming back until the morning.\u00a0 It was the best time of my life, which of course doesn\u2019t say much for the past 35 years.\u00a0 Anyway it drove Henry crazy, and he told Dad of course.\u00a0 Dad tried to ground me, but that didn\u2019t matter, I always found a way.\u00a0 And Chloe just didn\u2019t want to get caught in the cross-fire.\u00a0 What could she say anyway?\u00a0 After all she was Dad\u2019s student for Christ\u2019s sake.<\/p>\n

So of course, I was a queen bee, and Henry was just miserable.\u00a0 Actually, his nickname at the time was Polly, after his middle name Polonius.\u00a0 Polly was never a great student and not an athlete \u2013 he was a bit chubby as a teenager \u2013 and he just tried to rely on his elite social standing, but as you can see, he is tad bit socially awkward.\u00a0 His classmates used to sneak onto our beach at night and have bonfires and big parties, but then wouldn\u2019t include him.\u00a0 They would invite me, because well, I was fun, and Polly could just suck the life out of any event.\u00a0 One time I was down at the beach with some of his friends \u2013 this was just after he had busted me to my parents.\u00a0 We are sitting around the bonfire, and one of the guys noticed Polly lurking in the shadows.\u00a0 I thought maybe he was spying on me, but thinking back, maybe he just wanted to be invited to the group.\u00a0 Anyway, I was still so angry with him, that I said, \u201cHey look guys, there is my brother Polly Waddle spying on us.\u00a0 Get out of here P. Waddle, you\u2019re not invited.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOkay, I admit it, it was a cruel thing to do, but the worst thing was that the nick name Polly Waddle spread throughout school, and that\u2019s what he had to live with for the next couple of years.\u00a0 Maybe it did him some good, because after that night Polly went on a fitness kick, and actually emerged at the school\u2019s best high jumper.\u00a0 Athletics were the key to social success in our high school, but being a good high jumper was just not enough to overcome his general awkwardness, including the nickname of Polly Waddle.\u00a0 I certainly regretted it when I saw how it played out.\u00a0 I tried to make it up to him, tried to include him in more things, but it was too late.\u00a0 I insisted that he come to one party on our beach, and Polly just let his classmates order him around, he was getting them beers, running up to the house to get more snacks, picking up empties, that sort of thing.\u00a0 It was just too awful to watch, and I think that\u2019s when I started going to Cutter City more.\u00a0 You know, I looked at Polly with such disdain, but that is basically the person that I turned into, being pushed around and bullied.\u00a0 How many years have I become the person I hated?\u201d<\/p>\n

Uh oh, time to catch her before she fell into the self-pity abyss.\u00a0 \u201cOkay, I can understand a natural jealousy and resentment, but Sam must have done something more specific than just being from Cutter City,\u201d I said, hoping to get her back on track.<\/p>\n

\u201cI agree, there was something specific, but I never found out what it was. Sam insisted that we live in Cutter City after we got married, so we really never saw Polly.\u00a0 And then Sam got really successful with his real estate investment in Cutter City- that was just before Dad died.\u00a0 \u00a0Up to that point, we were cordial, saw Dad and Chloe on Christmas and Thanksgiving, but it was always tense.\u00a0 I remember sitting at the dining room table \u2013 I think that it was Thanksgiving.\u00a0 It was just the five of us, Sam and I, Polly, Chloe and Dad.\u00a0 I remember hearing the knives clink on the plates in the long gaps in the conversation.\u00a0 Sam would ask Polly what he was up to, how his business was going, but it was really just cruel since I am sure that Sam knew that Polly was floundering and basically had no job.\u00a0 I remember Dad asked Sam how his business was going \u2013 a natural question, but one that Sam had teed up to contrast with Polly.\u00a0 Sam went into great detail on his latest real estate deal, and at that point Polly exploded and basically told Sam that he was never welcome in his house again, and then turned to me and said, \u2018As far as I\u2019m concerned, you are just dead to me, just dead.\u2019\u00a0 I remember driving home with Sam.\u00a0 He was laughing \u2013 I actually don\u2019t think I have ever seen him so happy.\u00a0 He put the top down on the car, and starting smoking a cigar.\u00a0 That was when he told me that we were finally going to move back to Santa Teresa.\u00a0 We drove around looking at properties, and he told me, \u2018One day we are going to live up in the canyon and look down on Santa Teresa.\u2019\u00a0 Dad died shortly after Christmas that year, and Polly just took over Chloe.\u00a0 \u00a0And I was still in a pretty bad shape then, and just didn\u2019t have the energy, just really didn\u2019t have the skills.\u00a0 And then it just sort of drifted into a permanent situation that I stopped thinking about, and I thought that we were going along just fine.\u00a0 So what if I was estranged from my brother and Chloe, it didn\u2019t seem to matter, until now at least.\u201d<\/p>\n

That was the saddest and the most terrifying story that I had ever heard.\u00a0 One slip of the tongue on the part of a teenager sent a whole family into a black hole that had now seeped into the next generation, and potentially caused a death.\u00a0 Simba was just a teenager for God\u2019s sake \u2013 how could she be held responsible for all the fallen dominoes that now lay in rubble around her.\u00a0 Simba must have seen the stunned look on my face and said, \u201cIt\u2019s not a pretty story, and it\u2019s really the first time I have told it out loud.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been to lots of therapy, but we have mostly focused on my relationship with Sam \u2013 now that\u2019s a fertile ground for discussion, that\u2019s for sure, but I\u2019ve never mentioned Polly Waddle before, it just seemed so silly and trivial, at least that\u2019s what I\u2019ve been telling myself, but my carelessness with my brother might have started this all. \u2018Carelessness,\u2019 that is a word that my therapist likes to use, how we must all be careful with one another, but that sure is difficult when you are dealing with someone as sensitive as my brother.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSimba, I appreciate you telling me all this, and particularly that you trust me enough to delve into your past relationship with Henry.\u00a0 I don\u2019t have any personal experience to draw on since I was an only child, but I will tell you that as a private investigator, carelessness is the root cause of much of my work \u2013 runaways, infidelities \u2013 it is usually about people being careless.\u00a0 And what has always impressed me is that I can usually find someone, that\u2019s usually pretty easy, but that is never the solution.\u00a0 You have to address the root of the problem, which may go back for years.\u00a0 So, I want to let you know that you’re far ahead of most of my clients.\u201d<\/p>\n

Simba gently nodded her head.\u00a0 \u201cThank you,\u201d she said softly.\u00a0 \u201cYou will come with me tomorrow?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, of course, and I think that we should strategize a bit, because I am sure that you do not want this to be as confrontational as that,\u201d I said pointing to the park.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven though I found that invigorating,\u201d she said with a smile, \u201cI think that we need to be more productive.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOkay, I think that we frame this meeting as an opportunity to talk about Chloe\u2019s care and why she has been jerked around so much at Great Days.\u00a0 After all, he did say that you could take over guardianship, and from that will come a discussion of the finances.\u00a0 You might want to ask your lawyer what sort steps need to be taken to transfer guardianship, whether it can be by mutual agreement, or there needs to be some legal steps.\u00a0 You might want to also ask your lawyer what sort of steps would be required if Henry refuses to transfer the guardianship \u2013 do you need to demonstrate that he is an unfit guardian \u2013 that sort of thing. It is just good to come into a situation with more information than the opponent \u2013 well maybe I shouldn\u2019t call Henry your opponent, but you know what I mean.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is an opponent now,\u201d said Simba, \u201cbut let\u2019s say that our goal is to end the meeting as something less than opponent.\u00a0 As you say, at some point I will need to resolve the big ugly thing that has been sitting under a rock for about 25 years, but trust me, asking Sam is not the best strategy.\u00a0 So hopefully, this meeting with Polly will set the stage for further conversations.\u00a0 I know he must be lonely over there, and maybe he wants his family back too.\u00a0 But I am not expecting miracles. I\u2019ll see you tomorrow, my friend.\u201d\u00a0 We both stood up and our departing hug was entirely spontaneous and natural.<\/p>\n

As I walked back to the car, I thought about big black ugly things beneath rocks.\u00a0 Addressing Henry might boost her confidence and give her some credibility with Dessa, but I wondered if Simba knew that there were probably several other rocks that harbored all sorts of slithery black things.<\/p>\n

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