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“Love of your life, jeez, Dallas But see, you’re the love of his right back This wasn’t the sao insane and throw Roarke over for somebody, what do you think he’d do?”

“Before or after this soe on the bottom of Roarke’s shoe?”

“See?” Pleased, Peabody grinned “If you’ve got a love of your life, you know” She paused, sniffed “Soood”

“Just keep going,” Feeney ordered quickly “If the theory is that Stiles was stuc

k on this Carvell woe the picture?”

“Because you never get over the love of your life That’s the whole definition, isn’t it? You only get one So that bit about hi touch with her was bull”

“I like it If we find that Stiles had soot a motive that spans a quarter century The setup suits him in both murders He had opportunity”

“It’s all circumstantial,” Feeney reminded her

“Yeah, but we pile on enough, we ht finesse a confession out of his, hook up with McNab on it Feeney, how do you feel about going to a splashy memorial service?”

“My wife loves it when I rub elboith celebrities”

“Peabody, we’re in the field”

“Yes, sir” She watched the, chunky salad

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Feeney’s as going to be delirious Performers from every medium were in attendance The service was held at Radio City Though Draco had never perforht aent had hired the top Mourner’s Association coe the affair

And as it was, technically, Draco’s last perforross