Chapter Ten
After Miles left, Myrtle did come up with a dinner for herself, but decided not to cook anything fancy but to stick with eggs. She read her book a little bit, but thoughts about the case kept intruding. She finally took out a legal pad and a pen and started jotting down notes about everyone involved with Luther’s death and how they connected with each other. There were, she decided, a lot of lines between the different suspects. But then, it was Bradley, North Carolina. Everyone was connected somehow, if not out-and-out related.
A couple of days passed, more quietly than Myrtle liked. Elaine continued her chess game with Miles and it was interrupted once again, this time by some sort of crisis involving her plumbing. Myrtle believed that they must be acts of God working on Mi
