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Mike and Sa back, Beckett?" Mike asked David

"In a while"

The talked off,to one another

"That Beckett isn’t a cop-he’s a filrapher or whatever And suspicious as hell, if anyone asks," Mike said

"Yeah, but, hey, he’s a Beckett Damned Becketts still think they own the island," Sarinned "So?"

"So, let’s see if we can check out Mike’s alibi Then I’ll head on back in I want to hang around O’Hara’s tonight I figure things will start getting wild"

David waited, h various conversations with Miaroups

Why did Danny have the Key West history books, and why had ten thousand dollars been slipped into one book?

Lia David’s attention "Mike Sanderson was telling the truth A vice guy in Mia There was a Tiffany, and when it all went to court, she vouched for Mike Sanderson’s statee"

Scratch another one off the list

"Thanks, Liam," he said

"It’s a walk-you want a ride?"

"I’ll catch a cab," David told him

He called Katie on his way back and found out that she was at the house He had himself dropped off at her address, and when he knocked, Sean let hiain Katie is in the parlor"

"Thanks," David said He looked at Sean, earing a pirate’s bandana, a tricorn hat, striped pants and a black poet’s shirt

Sean grimaced "Uncle Jamie wants to support the pirates"

"Great"

He went into the parlor Katie was perched on the love seat, his faer book in her hands She didn’t even notice him as he entered

He noticed her

She wore pirate attire extreh she was coht that she’d rival any woman as stark naked Just the line of her throat and collarbone was visible, and the beautiful rise of rounded breasts Her waist seemed minuscule, and her pirate boots added a touch of the wicked woman to her apparel

He whistled

She looked up, startled, nearly dropping the book

"Hey," she said She looked at him curiously

"I visited the jailbirds Mike Sanderson has an absolute alibi for the night Tanya was killed"

"Oh?"

"He ith an escort," David said

She was startled "But, I thought…"

"He says that he was certain that he’d already been ditched-for me," David told her

She looked at hi the book down "I need you to bring those books over to the point, but why are you so convinced?"

"I don’t kno to explain it to you" She s to ing tree?" David said

"Your ancestor avenged a pirate, did you know that?" Katie asked She jerked forward suddenly, just as if she had been pushed "Privateer!" she said fir, he said, "I know the story, of course Soed to shift the blaed by a lynchBeckett saw to it that Sed, as well Katie, it was close to two hundred years ago That’s one hell of a long tie" He s up to kill women and try to frame the Becketts, do you?"

"Ghosts don’t really have that kind of strength," she said

"What? Katie, thesecoone on in the past"

"Of course," she said "But I do think that the key lies in the past"

"Absolutely I’ll get the books too to work reading through them"