Lethal Luncheon (Puzzle Lady Mystery, A Short Story) - Plot & Excerpts
Cora Felton whined.Sherry Carter piloted the Toyota around a curve in the road, and glanced sideways at her aunt. “That’s a silly question, Cora. We’re in the car on our way to lunch. Of course we have to go.”“We could turn around.” “Aren’t you hungry?”“We could stop at the Friendly’s. I could get a cheeseburger and a hot fudge sundae.”“I thought you were on a diet.”“All right, I’ll get a coffee Fribble. Coffee isn’t fattening.”“It’s coffee ice cream.”“What’s your point?”“Cora, we have to go to the luncheon. You’re donating a dish. It’s for charity.”“But I can’t cook.”“You can’t do crossword puzzles, either, but that’s never stopped you.”Cora Felton’s sweet, grandmotherly face graced her niece’s nationally syndicated crossword puzzle column.“That’s unfair,” Cora protested. “Did I want to be the Puzzle Lady. I never wanted to be the Puzzle Lady. That was your idea.”“And a pretty good one, too. You owe your TV career to it.”Cora Felton did breakfast cereal commercials as the Puzzle Lady.
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