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AAA Detective Story — Who’s the Father — Part 6
Ken Confronts Mary Fletcher
Ken drives to the Fletcher’s apartment. It’s an old brownstone that probably used to belong to a single family before it was remodeled and subdivided to hold half a dozen families. He glances in his folder. Apartment 2B. The door to the building is open and he walks up the stairs to the second floor. The doors all have dull brass numbers on them. At 2B he stops and knocks. “Misses Fletcher?”
The door cracks open, a safety chain visible on the inside. “Yes? What do you want?”
“I’m Ken Cooper. You spoke with my secretary, Joan this morning. Can I come inside? Your husband hired me, but I want to talk to you first.” He says holding up the folder and tapping it with his fingers.
She starts to close the door saying “I don’t know what you are talking about. I just don’t feel well today, that’s why I didn’t go to work.”
Ken slides a photo of her and Marcus in the Palace lobby in the door crack. “Do you want your husband to see this, before we have a chance to talk?”
The door closes all the way. After a moment he hears the chain move and then she opens the door. She is wearing a bathrobe and looks like…