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“Has anybody stayed here since the suicide?”

“Actually, business has been a little slow right now, so we’ve kept it vacant”

“Has the room been cleaned since the incident?”

“Oh, sure”

“Can you find me the maid who cleaned it?”

“She’s off today”

“When will she be in?”

“To”

“I’d like her to call ets in”

“Of course, Lieutenant, but why are you investigating this now? The suicide was o”

“Just trying to tie up a few loose ends,” Bernstein explained “Can you also find ht of the suicide?”

“Hector checked Dr Grey in,” Adams said “The police spoke to him already”

“When does Hector come in?”

“He’s here now”

“Then please send him up”

“No problem”

“Has any work been done on the room since the incident?”

Adahed into his fist “We replaced the brokenhe juh, of course”

“Nothing else?”

The assistant ht a moment “No, I don’t think so”

“Okay, thanks”

“Here’s the key, Lieutenant”

“I’ll return it to you on my way out”

“Thank you”

Left alone, Bernstein paced the rooet a feel for the surroundings Then he closed his eyes and tried to step into the good doctor’s shoes He tried to picture Dr Bruce Grey checking into this hotel, taking the elevator up to the eleventh floor, unlocking the door,to force open theand finding that it was nailed shut So what did Grey do next? He h the glass Max pictured hiainst the glass, shattering it into s himself in the process Not exactly a neat suicide Very lass could not have been a lot of laughs

So here, Twitch

He nodded to hilass? It did not add up The h He had been divorced for seven years already, had a kid he didn’t see enough, loved to read, loved to work, wasto Harvey Riker and several of Bruce’s friends, Grey rarely traveled and had only been out of the country three ti a vacation before suicide?), and twice to Bangkok a few years back, where the clinic kept all confidential blood and lab samples and test results Max had learned that Harvey and Bruce were paranoid about leaks, sabotage, govern—hence the decision to have a safe house way out in Bangkok Might have seemed like unsubstantiated paranoia at the time but now

Bernstein stopped in ht when he saw it

His gaze fastened on the left side of the wall by the door, his eyes widening He slowly crossed the roo from the wall and door in two separate pieces The steel chain was snapped in two Max was bending forward to get a closer look when a knock on the door made him jump