Forty Thousand Dollars and the Deed to Maple Avenue Bakery

” she said.

I handed her a five-dollar bill from my purse, noting that coffee now cost two dollars and fifty cents a cup.

Arthur adjusted his wire-rimmed glasses, holding them by the frame to clean the lenses with his handkerchief.

“I looked into the savings ledger from nineteen ninety-four,” Arthur said, his voice dropping to a precise continue reading …