Boss, Your Wife's a Whole Detective novel · Chapter 23 of 24
Chapter 23: Admissible
"It is admissible," said Ida Brennan, "when I'm standing at the back of the room."
Every head in the ballroom turned.
She had been there since eight, behind the last row of gilt chairs, in her belted trench coat, with her reading glasses on their chain.
Two detectives from Area Central stood at her shoulders. Neither of them was young.
She walked down the center aisle without hurrying, peppermints rattling in her pocket.
"Two hundred witnesses," she said. "A house feed that records to disk. And a young woman on the sound board who has never been asked a question in her life."
The niece, at the back, lifted two fingers at her laptop.
"You can't," said Lionel, and for the first time his voice did not sound like his own. "I have been a board member of this company for twenty-two years."
"Yes. And on Saturday morning, at a quarter past six, a man with an earpiece was stopped on the Dan Ryan with a hat box in the trunk of his car."
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