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LIVING WITNESS THE GREGOR DEMARKIAN BOOKS BY JANE HADDAM Not a Creature Was Stirring Precious Blood Act of Darkness Quoth the Raven A Great Day for the Deadly Feast of Murder A Stillness in Bethlehem Murder Superior Dead Old Dead Festival of Deaths Bleeding Hearts Fountain of Death And One to Die On Baptism in Blood Deadly Beloved Skeleton Key True Believers Somebody Else’s Music Conspiracy Theory The Headmaster’s Wife Hardscrabble Road Glass Houses Cheating at Solitaire LIVING WITNESS __________ A Gregor Demarkian Novel JANE HADDAM MINOTAUR BOOKS NEW YORK This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. LIVING WITNESS. Copyright © 2009 by Orania Papazoglou. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10010. www.minotaurbooks.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Haddam, Jane, 1951– Living witness : a Gregor Demarkian novel / Jane Haddam.—1st ed. p. cm. ISBN-13: 978-0-312-38086-1 ISBN-10: 0-312-38086-0 1. Demarkian, Gregor (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Private investigators —Pennsylvania—Fiction. 3. Pennsylvania—Fiction. I. Title. PS3566.A613L58 2009 813'.54—dc22 2008036059 First Edition: April 2009 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For Edelweiss— because fame is another way to go on living Man by nature wants to know. —Aristotle The world changes, and truths cannot be embalmed. —Richard Hofstadter PROLOGUE So, what is evolution, anyway? It’s survival of the fittest, right? —question from student, Post University, 22 April 2008 Biological (or organic) evolution is change in the properties of populations of organisms or groups of such populations, over the course of generations. The development, or ontogeny, of an individual organism is not considered evolution. Individual organisms do not evolve. The changes in populations that are considered evolutionary are those that are “heritable” via the genetic material from one generation to the next. Biological evolution may be slight or substantial, it embraces everything from slight changes in the proportions of different forms of a gene within a population, such as the alleles that determine the different human blood types, to the alterations that led from the earliest organisms to dinosaurs, bees, snapdragons and humans. —Douglas J. Futuyma, Evolutionary Biology, 3rd Edition 1 If Ann-Victoria Hadley had been forced to tell the truth—and she never had to be forced; she always told the truth—she would have had to admit that this was not the first time she had been the most hated person in Snow Hill, Pennsylvania. In fact, for most of her ninety-one years, she had made something of a hobby of it. It had started in 1926, when she was ten. That was the first and last time she had ever entered the Snow Hill Historical Society’s annual Fourth of July Essay Contest. The winner of the contest got to read her essay from the reviewing stand at the end of the Fourth of July parade. “Right in front of everybody!” Annie-Vic’s fifth-grade teacher had said, as if
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