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"--She’d have been at hoas, he couldn’t, not in a hotel with the twenty-four-hour casino traffic"

Daniel nodded "So he killed Molly Harbinger instead You know he drove there, Cam, and we’ll prove it"

"If Missy and I hadn’t ain, rather than Gloria Swanson?"

"He’s a psychopath, you knoould have Hang on, we’re nearly there" Daniel turned right, bulleted down a deserted block, swung a fast left, slowed to a cran the alley behind Deborah’s house Mrs Markham’s SUV, HOLLY 7, was parked in the alley close to the back stoop It was quiet, after one o’clock in the hbors’ The crime scene tape was pulled from the back door Cahts and they slowed to a stop "There, in Deborah’s bedrooh she knehat he’d say, she whispered, "Backup?"

Daniel shook his head "If he’s got Markhaoes down, I want us to be the one in control, not Elman, not anyone else Just us, you and love compartment "Let’s try the back door I doubt Doc reset the alarm, if it was on in the first place"

They exited the car, taking care not to sla the ay until they reached the kitchen door Daniel tried the doorknob It was locked

Cam pulled out her lock pick set froe purse A few seconds and the door lock sprung open He shook his head at her, marveled She turned the knob slowly and slipped in, Daniel behind her They stood in the sht-shrouded kitchen, listened They heard voices co roo bastard, or I’ll stuff the gag back in your mouth before I cut your throat"

Cam pulled out her cell, pressed record

Markha "What can I say to ht you killed her and that’s why I hired the PI Don’t you re to do with us, you hated that she was an actress I thought she finally threw you out and you killed her"

They heard a hand strike flesh, then Doc’s hard voice "You confessed!"

"I had to or you would have killed bothin my movie I had no reason to kill her"

"Did you really think I’d let you frame me for Deborah’s murder after you killed her? Let you just walk away?"