[MaC] A pause in the music

[Margaret Dean]

Brian Schoner wrote:
> 
> Phillip, swirling his half-filled glass absently, stared at the body, though
> he was careful not to touch anything. "It looks--" His voice rasped; he
> cleared his throat and began again, looking slightly abashed. "It looks as
> though she was strangled *with* something, not bare-handed. Does anyone see
> anything here that might have been the, er, murder weapon?" He looked around
> the room as if uncertain of what he was searching for, then his gaze fell on
> the piano. "Piano wire, perhaps?"

"It can't have been that," Marion said almost too quickly.  "He
was playing ... surely he would have noticed sooner if one was
missing?"


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>