Have you ever been in a situation where everything pointed toward one conclusion or a specific series of events, but then it doesn't add up to what you expect. Stuff like that drives me crazy and I can't really rest until I solve the mystery.
In the late 1970's, I took on a new client. Pearl lived in a million dollar apartment. She dressed beautifully. Her clothes, her shoes were amazing. Her hair was always done just right. Her car was new and expensive. She had stocks, bonds, investments, real estate, insurance, an accountant. She had a safety deposit box with plenty of cash. She had people fawning all over her. She was a very rich lady. She was also totally out of it, with no grasp of reality.
But what was missing from the picture and made the puzzle intriguing was that other than her engagement and wedding rings and watch, she didn't have one piece of jewelry; not one. It wasn't in her safe deposit box at the bank, it wasn't in her drawers, it wasn't in some clever hiding place in the fridge, it wasn't anywhere. For a woman this well put together, this was unthinkable. Perhaps it would have taken a man a week to figure out something was missing, but it took me 3 seconds.
It took me almost an entire week to search her four bedroom home, but in the end I was proved right. I tripped over one of her shoes in the big closet, fell slightly and banged into the opposite wall - which proceeded to open and reveal a floor-to-chest-high set of drawers full of jewelry. OK, some of it was costume, but enough of it was so expensive that I had to call in her bank people to catalogue it and take possession of it. Oh well.....
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