By Monica Ferris
Proprietor of the Crewel international needlework store and part-time sleuth, Betsy Devonshire needs to support transparent Jan Henderson's identify whilst her filthy rich aunt is located useless, courtesy of a double-zero knitting needle. like the sort Jan knits with. And an embroidered map of Lake Minnetonka, came across one of the aunt's results, may lead Betsy to a buried treasure-or to a mystery that somebody might kill to maintain buried.
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Besides, not anyone in our relatives ever went to Texas. ” “She wasn’t born in Texas. She came upon she was once followed after her mom and dad died and has been searching for out whatever approximately her organic roots. She says she got here from a Minnesota adoption company, yet she can’t locate any files of her start mom and dad. ” Jan smiled. “I wasn’t certainly one of a couple of exact twins, used to be I? ” Recovered, her mom smiled again. “No, i feel i might have spotted in the event you have been. So this individual is your age? ” “She says she’s many years older, although she doesn’t glance it. yet it’s the oddest factor: we not just glance alike, we're alike, in loads of methods. we've such a lot of issues in universal! If she’s now not yours, or Dad’s, i'm wondering the place she got here from? ” “Well, it wouldn’t shock me the least bit if there have been childrens with a family members resemblance scattered all over, because of your Uncle Stewart! ” “Mo-ther! how will you say that? ” Her mom provided a pained smile. “Oh, you’re correct, after all. His most evident faults argue opposed to that. First, he's almost certainly the laziest human alive. someone lazier couldn’t be anxious to respire or blink, and so wouldn’t have survived. moment, he beverages. And as a nurse, you recognize what drink does to male, er, potential. Who used to be it who acknowledged, ‘Liquor complements wish whereas diminishing performance’? So whether he fell over a keen girl, or one fell over him…no. ” She shook her head with a regretful smile. “He has 4 daughters, so…” Jan boggled at getting much more particular. “And besides, he’s now not an alcoholic, probably not! ” “Well, it’s real that I don’t take into account seeing him inebriated till he obtained into highschool. ” Jan’s mother gave her daughter a sardonic glance as she took a drink of her Arnold Palmer—half iced tea, part lemonade, an Antiquity Rose forte. “Oh, Moth-er! ” acknowledged Jan back. “You sound similar to you probably did in the event you have been fourteen,” Susan stated, amused. “I do? i used to be imitating Ronnie. ” Jan’s more youthful son was once at a tiresome degree of teendom. Her mom raised her eyes to heaven. “It’s a mother’s wish come precise: I usually needed you’d have young ones who might provide the comparable grief you gave me. ” “Oh, Moth-er! ” “It’s by no means as humorous the 3rd time. ” “You’re correct, you’re right,” sighed Jan. “It’s even much less humorous the twenty-fifth time. ” Her mom solid her amused eyes heavenward back yet didn’t say whatever. “Katie thinks she’s after our cash. ” “Who’s after whose cash? ” “Lucille, our Texas customer. After Aunt Edyth’s. i believe Lucille isn't wealthy, and Kate thinks she may have heard approximately Aunt Edyth and made up our minds to work out if she may well minimize herself a section of that pie. ” Jan’s mom snorted. “I want her success attempting. She’s no longer mine, and, because of DNA trying out, humans can’t play tips like that anymore, irrespective of how a lot they appear to be a family member. together with your clinical education, you need to recognize that. ” “Yes, I do. ” Oddly, the idea made her a bit unhappy. After lunch, Jan went around the highway to the parking zone, a hollowed-out area within the heart of the block, surrounded via the backsides of shops.