“So,” Sam said when I finished, “the lieutenant will have the victim, Francie Pitts Delacorte, saying that Etta Mae was wearing a light blue scrub suit that morning and still wearing it when she left at eleven, and a witness, you, Julia, testifying that she had on a dark, long-sleeved dress one hour and fifteen minutes or so later, which should prove that Etta Mae did leave and go home during that time. So let’s say it takes twenty minutes to drive from Francie’s house to Etta Mae’s trailer and another twenty minutes to drive here from the trailer. That eats up forty minutes of the hour and fifteen, leaving about thirty-five minutes unaccounted for.” “She was dressing, Sam, and fi xing her makeup. Who’s side are you on, anyway?” Sam grinned at me. “Just thinking like a prosecutor, sweetheart. And like a certain lieutenant. Still, I’ve never known you to be able to change clothes and put on makeup in thirty-five minutes.” “Yes, and Etta Mae puts on a lot more than I do, so it takes her longer.
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