Can
Samuel Hoenig Solve The
Question of the Missing Head?: An Excerpt
"It's a cryogenics lab, Jesse," she said.
"It's legal."
"Cryonics," I corrected. "Cryogenics is
simply
the science of very low temperatures. Cryonics is the activity
practiced here."
But the officer named Jesse, whose nametag
read "Crawford," pointed at Dr. Springer's body. "What about
that?"
"That is one of our doctors," Ackerman said.
"She's dead?" Crawford asked.
Ackerman nodded.
"Call it in," Crawford told his partner, and
she reached for her communications link on her shoulder.
"That might not work down here," Ackerman
told her, and pointed to the phone. The female officer
started to call to her headquaters.
"You were coming out of there when we came
in," Crawford said to me. "You shouldn't have been in there."
"We weren't sure she was dead," Ms. Washburn
explained. "Mr. Hoenig was trying . . ."
"I answer people's questions for them," I
told the officer. "I needed to be in there to answer a question for Dr.
Ackerman."
"Did you touch anything?"
"No," I said. "I was extremely careful."
Crawford leaned into the preservation
chamber, and Ackerman looked nervously after him. I think he
was nervous—it might have been an expression of dissapproval.
"No blood," Crawford said. "Looks like
natural causes."
"Oh, no," I told him. "Dr. Springer was
murdered."
Discover
who murdered Dr. Springer in The
Question of the Missing Head
by
E.J. Copperman and Jeff Cohen, available October 8.
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