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Like Spector told you, Mercer said, these doctors are already paranoid
cause you re on the case.
That s asinine. They d be hard-pressed to find someone who respects the
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medical community as much as I do. The two men I ve loved most in this world,
I responded, thinking of my father and of Adam, my late fiancé, have been
doctors the most caring and devoted people I ve ever known.
Besides, Mike added. Nobody s saying the killer s a doctor. But the odds
are pretty good that it s someone who knew Dogen. Knew her habits, her hours.
Knew that everyone would think her strong enough to fight back against a
rapist and fit enough to try it even though he was armed.
I think tomorrow s another day for us at Mid-Manhattan, Mercer suggested.
Who s reaching out for the husband? Any idea?
Yeah, the lieutenant said he called London this afternoon and broke it to
him. Very cooperative, appropriately upset. Told Peterson it was like losing
his oldest friend.
I hope they re gonna try to bring him over here to talk to us. There must be
some light he can shed on her for us.
We argued our way in a friendly fashion through most of the news stories,
disagreeing with each other about which of the witnesses we liked or disliked
and what the order of our interviews should be throughout the week.
Mike shushed us up when he saw the lead-in forJeopardy!
Mercer called Maureen to check on her spirits at the top of the show since
neither Mike nor I took the first round seriously. He passed the phone to each
of us and she told me about her day.
She d had a visit from John DuPre on his neurological rounds. He s one of
the guys who found Pops in the X-ray department, isn t he? I was tempted to
give in and let him do a physical on me. Don t you think he s fine, Alex?
Quite a looker.
I ll let you know tomorrow. Mike wants us to reinterview him. We promised
your husband there d be no hands-on medical practice, Mo. Behave yourself.
What s a girl to do? The only news from the solarium today was from my
next-door neighbor. Says her internist told her Gemma had a thing for younger
men.
How young? And did she name names?
Well, the woman telling the story is eighty-two so anything in her book is
young. Sorry, no names.
Sarah s coming up to see you tomorrow. Meanwhile, I m being wined and dined
by the other two musketeers.
I m jealous. Call me later.
By the time Trebek got to the highlight of the show, the legally blind
linguist from Tampa was leading both other contestants by four thousand
dollars. Today s Final Jeopardy category, he announced, is Art. We ll be
right back after a commercial break.
Mike yelled at the television screen. How the hell can they ask a blind man
a question about art? That s a disgrace it s discrimination, it s
It s basically because you re ignorant in that area, Detective Chapman, I
said, winking at Mercer and imitating the tone of a cross-examining attorney,
is it not?
Five dollars, Coop. That s my bet.
Sorry once again, Chapman. House has a ten-dollar minimum. I m willing to go
to fifty on it with you. Get my money back.
Mercer was the referee as usual. Ten dollars is the bet.
Trebek looked at the tense trio before him and revealed the answer.
Seventeenth-century Dutch portraitist famous for his miniature paintings of
wealthy burghers, whose best-known work isThe Peace at Münster.
While the theme music marked the time, Mike ranted at the ridiculous notion
that any of the contestants would know the answer to such an obscure query.
No, I m sorry, Mr. Kaiser, Trebek told the first contestant. Frans Hals is
a good guess, but you re a century off.
You want me to tell you beforehe does so you know I m for real? I asked
Chapman as the second contestant misfired with a try at Rembrandt.
See, Mercer? This is the kind of bullshit they teach at a Seven Sisters
school. That s why they re all so arrogant when they get out of those places.
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Who is it, Blondie?
Who is Gerard Terborch? I said, complying with the basic rule by, putting
my answer in the form of a question.
Trebek was consoling the blind man, who didn t have a clue and had left his
Braille answer card completely blank.
I can t believe how useless the stuff you learned in college is. It s
amazing you can hold down a job.
I didn t learn it there, I said as Mercer waited for Trebek to confirm my
answer before he turned off the television, pressed the CD changer to startRod
Stewart in Concert, and led us back to the kitchen.
I know, I know. Your old man probably has one, right? That little painting
of the guy with the bald head and the pipe in his mouth used to hang near the
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