I Called Three Investigators to My Nephew’s Birthday Party

and tell me after her first check hit.”

There it was. Hope mixed with fraud, which is how people get led around.

“Are you staying?” I asked.

Long silence.

“No.”

I heard a car door slam on his end.

Then he said, “Did you really get there at six?”

I almost told him the exact time was 5:42 and it had been cold enough at dawn that I’d kept the cake boxes in the continue reading …