The Butler Didn't Do It - Maria Lima
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Originally published in Chesapeake Crimes.
Copyright © 2004 by Maria Lima.
THE BUTLER DIDN’T DO IT
AUNT DEAD STOP BUTLER DID IT STOP FLY SOONEST STOP
—GERALD
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It took a few minutes for it to sink in. My aunt Clara was dead, and evidently her butler was the culprit.
Of course, news of her death didn’t exactly come as a surprise. Not that she was old, by any means, but at sixty-eight, Clara hadn’t changed much from her wild childhood. The sixties had been very ...