Chatpers 11 through 13 Summary

Spenser learns from the Boston Police Department that Vic has no police record. He has a message from a woman named Brenda Loring asking if he'd like to go away with her for the weekend but Spenser doesn't reply to the invitation. Margery has called five times. She tells him that her life has been threatened and demands that he come to her home immediately. When he arrives, there's a policeman named Paul Marsh in the drive; Dolly is eating macaroni in the kitchen, and Maguire is waiting with Margery. Margery says that she got a phone call about noon, that the police had already removed the recording device from the phones so there is no recording of the call, that the caller said they have Kevin and that they're going to shoot Margery.

Margery eventually becomes so upset that she...