The Dead Man Paid Cash: A Consider It Handled Mystery

Philip Rourke died in Mexico in April. In September, he paid rent in Fort Myers. The landlord has the receipts.

His daughter hired me to close his Cape Coral house, not to argue with a death certificate. Caroline has the report, the urn, and six months of bills she can't keep paying. I was halfway through the inventory when a landlord called with a photograph of Philip fixing her screen door in July.

Five monthly receipts put him ten miles from home, paying cash while his family mourned him. If Philip was alive, whose ashes did Caroline bring back from Mexico? And why did he disappear again after the September payment?

I follow the work Caroline hired me to do: travel folders, mail changes, canceled services, cash withdrawals. They lead to another older man whose family can't find him and to the woman who arranged both men's trips. The farther back I go, the more forms I find that were completed after someone was supposed to be dead.

Caroline asked me to finish her father's business. First I have to find out when he actually died.

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