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"Oh" I offered up my best Sunday smile "Surely you don’t mean little ole me?"

He executed a perfect heel-to-toe turn "I do, in fact"

I tried not to be intimidated It didn’t work "Well, okay, this is ht, I just meant that this is pretty much all there is I’m not sure what kind of tabs you wanted to keep, but --"

"How do you do it?" He’d turned back to study the books on my bookshelf I prayed he didn’t pay too close attention Sweet Savage Love was probably not the kind of material he wanted his consultants to read

I sat back behind e "I’ cases and I was just wondering what your hed, sounding slightly more insane than I’d intended "I detect"

He strolled over and sat in the chair oppositehis hat in his lap "And what methods of detection do you use?"

"Just the everyday kind," I said, having no idea what to say to that What was he trying to get from me? "I just think to myself, ‘What would Sherlock do?’ "

"Sherlock?"

"I even have a bracelet with the acrony it Spurting out inconsequential facts He was so going to bust me But for what? Why was I so nervous? I had a difficult ti to be

"And when you were nine? What hed "Nine?"

"And how about when you were five? How did you solve cases for your father when you were five years old?"

"M- so a few interviews It seems you helped your father for years and now you assist your uncle Have been for some time now"

Holy coas this air-the-dirty-laundry day? I would’ve worn ood underwear instead of the ones that said admission by invitation only "I’m not really sure what you o"

"Iyour relatives advance their careers for quite some time now I just want to kno"

"You know, some people would find that idea ludicrous"

"But not you"