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me
everything.”
    “ Then spill, Trinity. What
was the deal?”
    “ Well, Lisa never would say
who, but she was seeing someone else,” Trinity said, lowering her
voice.
    “ I thought you said she’d
never cheat on Jake.”
    “ I wasn’t going to
tell you. Lisa
told me that in confidence.”
    “ But she wouldn’t tell you
who?”
    “ Uh-uh. She took that secret
to the grave.”
    “ Trinity! That’s a terrible
thing to say,” one girl said.
    “ But it’s true. Makes you
wonder if Jake or the other guy found out and…well, you
know.”
    The two girls gasped in unison and
looked at one another then back to Trinity.
    “ You don’t really think
that—”
    “ Hey, I’m not saying that
either one of them killed her. I just think it’s a pretty big
coincidence that Lisa got killed when all this was going
down.”
    Just then the teacher came in and the
girls sat down, continuing to whisper quietly to one another. So
quietly I couldn’t hear, in fact, and believe me, I tried. Their
conversation had given me much food for thought, though.
    As Dr. Bradbury droned on
through class, my thoughts wandered to Detective Grayson and
whether or not he had learned the information that I’d just heard.
Obviously Jake didn’t kill her, but what about this other person?
Could it have been that Lisa was leaving Jake for that woman and
she killed her? Or maybe she’d decided not to leave Jake and the woman
killed her in a fit of jealous rage?
    I was itching to call Grayson, in part
because telling what could be a vital piece of information was the
right thing to do, but also to see if he’d tell me anything else
he’d discovered. By the time I walked through the door to my house,
I was already punching his number into my phone.
    “ Grayson,” he
answered.
    “ Detective Grayson, this is
Mercy Holloway.”
    “ Ms. Holloway,” he said. I
could just see him leaning back in his chair and crossing his arms
over his chest. “What can I do for you today?”
    “ You told me to call you if
I thought of anything else, right?”
    “ Yes.”
    “ Well, you might already
know this, but I overheard a conversation in class today. Did you
know that Lisa was seeing someone other than Jake
Wheeler?”
    I heard the squeaking of his chair and
smiled; he probably really was leaning back in it, just like I’d
pictured.
    “ No, I didn’t. Who was she
seeing?”
    “ I don’t know. Neither do
her friends apparently. But I was wondering if maybe it was a
woman. You know, the woman that I saw kill her.”
    “ We don’t know for sure that
it was a woman that killed Lisa Bauer.”
    “ But I saw—”
    “ The red hairs that were
found weren’t real. They were synthetic. Her killer was wearing a
wig.”
    I’d thought it wouldn’t be long until
the authorities found and apprehended Lisa’s killer. I mean, how
many people could there have been with long red hair that she was
involved with? But a wig? That changed everything. It could be
anybody. Literally.
    Then I remembered something the girls
had said last week. “Lisa might’ve been at a costume party. Maybe
it was part of a costume, the wig I mean.”
    “ Very good, Ms. Holloway.
But do you happen to know what kind of costume party it
was?”
    “ No, but I could probably
find out.”
    “ No need. It was a Marvel
Masquerade. Everyone was dressed up as a Marvel Comics character.
Lisa was dressed as Tony Stark.”
    “ Then what character would
have long red hair? I don’t know much about—”
    “ There are three. Medusa,
Jackpot and Black Widow. Unless you count minor characters like
Mary Jane Watson.”
    Obviously, they’d made much more
headway with this case than I had. I was beginning to think cops
got a bad rap on television. These guys were really on top of
things.
    “ So who attended the party
dressed as one of those characters?”
    Grayson was so quiet all I could hear
was the buzz of the open connection. When he finally spoke, his
tone was cool. “We’re looking