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Mrs. Nolan had given me when talking about food service and the trucks.
    He nodded. “Sounds like a plan to me. Want to hear about the latest from Danvers?”
    Of course, he hadn’t really needed to ask me. Land knew that I wanted to hear all the details about the murder case, especially if it could relate to our purchase of the truck. I nodded.
    “So, now that Janelle is out of the loop. Danvers is trying to use the photos he took of the various couriers and identify them so we can continue the surveillance. Otherwise, he’s wants you to reopen that truck with a foreigner who might have sympathies to other countries.”
    “Shouldn’t he have been doing that already?” I asked, thinking that the couriers and their associates should have been identified long ago so that the leaders of the operation could be discovered.
    “Yes, but Danvers was concerned about digging too deep and alerting the couriers to the fact that they were being watched. So he did nothing. Now he’s trying to play catch up since there’s no other way to find out what back-up plans were put into place. It’s standard bureaucracy. Try something until it’s clear that it won’t work, and then try something else.”
    I thought about Sam again and wondered if he had been photographed by the police. In all likelihood, he had been. He’d been at Janelle’s truck arguing about something while she was under surveillance. So perhaps my piece of information was worth more than I originally thought.
    “So the foreigner,” I asked, putting the word in air quotes, “would be you?”
    He nodded. “It would work out especially well if you end up buying the food truck.”
    I puzzled for a minute. “That would mean that we’d have to keep gyros on the menu, or the truck would be unrecognizable. It would be weird to have a logo that has nothing to do with the cuisine. How do you feel about that?”
    Land shrugged. “It does put me in a corner in terms of the fare, but I know some good lamb recipes. I could add some of those so that gyros are only one aspect of the cuisine. My mother had this lamb stew recipe.” He started into a recipe that would have never let you know that he was also talking about moving into a truck where the last owner had been murdered, or pretending to be part of an espionage ring.
    Obviously Land had been thinking about this for a long time. I knew that he had insisted that my aunt had promised him the food truck, but she had left it to me in her will. So I knew he’d been thinking about this since before she had passed away. Yet the circumstances were not what he would have wanted. He’d be a sitting duck for agents from a foreign country with a menu he hadn’t designed. It was less than optimal from his perspective.
    I pulled out a pad of paper to start making a list. Land knew I was serious about this, since I only made lists for things I absolutely wanted to get done. “So what all do we need to do to make this happen?”
    “The truck is currently evidence in a murder case, so there’s that. Danvers would have to get it released. That might take some doing. I mean, it could still have some physical evidence in it that the police missed the first time through.”
    I stopped writing. It was going to be a very short list if I had to rely on the kindness of Detective Jax Danvers. Usually he was warning me to stay away from open police investigations, lest I run across something that he’s missed. I could just imagine what he’d tell me if I wanted to buy the evidence in an open murder case. “I’m guessing the fact that it was the locked room where Janelle was found is going to make it that much more difficult to get released.”
    He nodded, but his expression did not look defeated. “Absolutely. It just depends on how bad they want to close this other case.”
    I looked up at him. “Are you really thinking that a spy case would be more important than a murder?”
    He shrugged. “It’s possible. Part of it would