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Galasses and spent the next tenit down and taking a contemplative sip of Dubonnet

‘Niacin,’ he said

‘Niacin,’ she agreed

‘Tell me about it’

‘Besides the niacin she was a healthy, though perhaps underweight, forty-eight-year-old woiven birth She was pre-menopausal All very natural and normal Her feet were charred from the shock and her hands were blistered, in the sa of the chair There was a tiny cut underneath that but it was old and healing It’s all consistent with electrocution except for one thing The niacin’

Galasses froently on the manila folder ‘What is it?’

‘A vitamin One of the B co over the table ‘It’s prescribed for high cholesterol and so it can increase brain power’

‘Can it?’

‘No evidence’

‘Then why do they think that?’

‘Well, what it does produce is a facial flush, and I guess so to the brain and you knohat that can only mean’

‘More brain power’

‘Isn’t it obvious?’ She shook her head in disdain ‘Fitting that people with so little brain poould corahtly raise the heart rate and the blood pressure As I said, it’s often prescribed by doctors, but it’s also available over the counter I don’t think you can overdose on it In fact, it’s even put into some breakfast cereals Niacin and thiamin’

‘So if the normal dose is five, what did CC have in her?’

‘Twenty’

‘Phew That’s a lot of cereal’

‘Captain Crunch a suspect?’

Ga into farams have done to her?’ he asked