Chapter 12

I’d called the alarm company almost as soon as I’d realized that we’d had an intruder.  Other than sincere apologies and a suggestion that we change the code to the alarm system in our house, I got nothing of value from them.   It didn’t surprise me.  It’s far less intimidating and easy to be uncooperative over the telephone than in person.   The only reason that I even bothered to call in the first place was to use it as a means of venting some nervous energy while I waited for my business credentials to be available to me.  Besides, you never know, I could have gotten lucky with whoever answered the phone.

Nora went to a same day printer and had a small batch of business cards made up right away.   Since I was only working on the one case and it was my own personal  case, she felt secure in sending me off with only a few cards in my wallet until the ones that she’d ordered over the interne