Six Vintage Dresses Left in a Cedar Trunk on Oak Street

notebook from my purse and wrote the numbers down, my hand steady despite the chill of the basement. “Is there an owner name on the sub-ledger?”

“It just says Pendelton Trust,” Jane said, looking up at me.

“That is his sister’s married name,” I said.

Jane closed the folder with a soft, paper-on-paper slide that sounded like a sigh. “He has the money in continue reading …