Status Updates From The Convivial Codfish (Kell...

“Now you’re beginning to talk sense. Since you’re looking for double-dyed perfidy, there’s one bastard who has it leaking out of him at every pore.” “What about guile?” “Ogham?” Jeremy Kelling snorted. “Guile takes at least a smattering of intelligence.” “Would you say that observation was based on fact or prejudice?” “I suppose it’s mostly prejudice,” Jem admitted.”

“Why had he thought it would be a good idea to involve himself in this geriatric saturnalia? Because…Jeremy Kelling had damn near got himself murdered, and Max wanted to know why. Jem wasn’t rich enough to get killed for his money. His philandering…was hardly of the sort to inflame a husband or lover to murderous rage. Jem wasn’t innocent enough to be anybody’s dupe or wise enough to be anybody’s nemesis.”