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"She also said the shooting yesterday is front and center in the National Enquirer, not a big deal in itself, since everyone else is already covering it, but the Enquirer got every single juicy detail, the arsenic poisoning, our na"

"But how?"

"Venus’s driver, MacPherson, left her a letter, apologizing but saying they paid hireat deal of money for his story and he has a sick kid to take care of He resigned They put his picture on the front page, along with Venus’s"

Sherlock paused a e the fact that MacPherson saved her life yesterday I suppose a father afraid for his child will do what he thinks he has to What’s wrong with MacPherson’s child?"

"She didn’t know She said MacPherson had never brought it up and his letter didn’t say"

"But does it really matter? I mean bits and pieces of what happened are all over the news You don’t suppose she ht consider it too big a betrayal If she asks ht keep the story in the news longer, but not much more than that

"It’s up to her We’ll see"

Sherlock saw Sean was all ears, and said quickly, "Sean, it’s chilly this et your jacket Gabriella will be here soon and you want to be ready for school"

When she heard his footsteps on the stairs, she said, "You orking on MAX late last night What were you doing?"

"Researching arsenic, and how soreat deal of information, but it wasn’t much help You order arsenic online or by mail order from dozens of chemical-supply companies that in turn have hundreds of custo to semiconductors to insecticide ent person could get hold of enough to poison someone

"Still, it’s rarely used as a poison, not in this country It’s too easy to detect, produces tooWillig"

Sherlock said, "I’ it was used since Venus is so old, and if the arsenic killed her, it wouldn’t necessarily be suspicious"

He nodded She had a point