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scrutinized the photo, but none of them recognized it.
     
    “I’d say we have our first clue,” Eleanor announced. “But before we start investigating this thing, we need to get a little more information about Ana.
     
    We need to rule out all possibilities. So we must to first rule out Chief Connors’ belief that it was an accident.”
     
    Maddie looked up at her friend. “But Eleanor, don’t you see here that it is obvious that there was an altercation right there in the kitchen?”
     
    “It certainly appears that way, but we have to be absolutely sure,” Eleanor pointed out. “Having a disagreement doesn’t necessarily translate into murder. If that were the case, we would all be dead. We have to be sure,” she continued. “Why, we don’t even know if anyone would have reason to want her dead. We first have to determine a motive for killing her and then find someone who actually had the opportunity to make it happen.”
     
    The women all agreed that Eleanor was right. While Maddie was the quick, shoot-from-the-hip type, Eleanor had a more practical approach to the same problem. They first needed to determine a motive.
     
    “Ok,” Eleanor took the lead, “what do we know about Ana?”
     
    They were all silent for a moment. They really didn’t know too much about her. She traveled in a completely different circle from them.
     
    “I know she runs that fancy, shmansy travel agency that plans those exotic around the world trips,” Bailey offered.
     
    “Yeah,” Maddie chimed in, “I’ve read about those trips. I’ve always wanted to go on one, but it is well out of my price tag.”
     
    “Mine too,” Eleanor agreed. “But, I do know that I’ve heard of several cases where her customers weren’t entirely satisfied with their trip and have sued her for their money back. She charges a pretty penny for those big affairs, you know.”
     
    “Maybe one of her dissatisfied customers could be behind all of this?” Maddie proposed out loud.
     
    “Perhaps, but we need to find out about her business. There seems to be a lot of business papers thrown about the room,” Eleanor said, examining one of the photos.
     
    “I guess the best place to start is to visit her office,” Bailey suggested. “It’s just, I don’t think we can walk in and start asking questions and they’ll answer us just like that.”
     
    “Maybe not,” Maddie said. “Maybe we can come up with a good cover story.”
     
    Astoria, her Persian cat, was scratching at the door wanting to come in from roaming about outside the back door of the store. Maddie always let her out for a little while after closing.
     
    “What kind of cover story could we come up with? It’s not like we’re pros at this,” Bailey wondered.
     
    “Well, we’ll think of something,” Maddie encouraged as she kicked off her working shoes and reached for her street shoes. “I mean all sorts of businesses must book trips through travel agencies, right?”
     
    “You’re saying that we should go in and pretend like we’re going to book a trip to ah, to ah, …” Bailey was snapping her fingers as if it would make her mind work better.
     
    “To a baker’s convention!” Maddie said excitedly. She started shuffling the papers around on her desk. “There’s one coming up soon. I got the announcement in the mail the other day.” She started rummaging through the paperwork on her desk. “I know it’s here somewhere. They’re going to be announcing a new line of appliances for professional bakers.”
     
    Her attention was divided between the mountain of work on her desk and Astoria clawing at her feet.  “Not now, Astoria,” She said irritated. “Not now.” She gave the cat a gentle kick. Astoria sauntered away, but was back again, playfully swatting at her shoe.
     
    “Let me see,” Maddie said, thinking out loud again. “I know I put it here somewhere.” Again she gave her cat a gentle nudge. “Astoria,” she said, slightly