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All right, I can understand you have your sources, so you need not tell me how you got that letter. It confirms what I've suspected. One of them did it. They were all insanely jealous of her and capable- oh my, yes, quite capable. Especially if a rival had come on the scene... Why, I last spoke with her a few days before her... before her death. We had drinks together at the Grand. She was very up about things, laughing, wise-cracking, just like the old Eva everybody loved. She was simply bursting with good news, and not only about the new commission for a mural on the university campus. There were sly hints about someone new, her "Darling," she called him. That's "Darling" in the letter, I guess. Not possessive like "the other one." Whoever that was. She was always such a tease. She had made a clean break with that pompous ass Ragnarok months ago. He had become an insufferable weight, I think that was how she put it. I mean, what was to recommend him? He's a stargazer by trade and his theories about entropy, and dying planets and all, well if they don't bore one, they depress one. Eva could only be happy with someone who shared her passion for art. Ivan Posener fits that description. But he also fits the description of a creepy dabbler who thinks paint was invented for his brush alone! I nearly did handstands when she gave him the bump last year. Problem is, a man with that degree of arrogance doesn't take rejection lightly. He lurked at the fringes, nursing his wounds and his obsession for Eva. | |
Martin Vole? I think she was at a loss what to do with him, the fawning little cretin. Here he was clamoring to be her amanuensis, and settled for being her lackey. He didn't have a lick of talent. Even she had come to realize that. She said she was going to call him and end their arrangement. That's all I can tell you. Here's a retainer. Now find her murderer, Raven. It's clear the police are chasing moonbeams. | |
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Finding is what I do best. Something else Dr. del Sarto told me that afternoon, before he hurried off to save another socialite with a facelift- Darling was all heart, Darling was kind, Darling really listened to what Eva had to say. I don't think she had Karl Ragnarok in mind... |
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