Epilogue

"I do," Quint supplied instantly. "There is something about the way she looks at you when she needs your help - so vulnerable. I don't think she has a clue how irresistible men find her. Maybe that's part of her charm."

Connie sighed. "She knows men are attracted to her beauty, but she doesn't realize it's merely what gets them to her door. Her personality is the attraction after that."

Quint took her hand. "Reminds me of someone else I know." He was rewarded with an adoring smile. "Yes," he continued "I remember that little tablet. He must have gone straight from there to me. He sure was anxious to unload everything he knew about Giddon. There wasn't anything on that tablet that I didn't already know at that point, though. Ironically, it was something he told me Lisa said that gave me the idea to search somewhere else."

Spencer stopped and they all faced each other. "What was that?"

"Mertz said she told him she didn't know who Yancey was or what he did. He couldn't understand why she would say that when she'd been living in his house so long. I had already searched for the name Yancey Giddon, but found nothing. Not even a birth date or social security number. I went to Lathum and told him what I had. I figured he'd be upset because I was still working on it. He was impressed that I had done so much on my own time and without breaking any rules - so impressed that he got me limited security access to do more sleuthing. I figured that if Giddon was using a pseudonym, he would have to either do his banking with his own name or fill out some kind of paperwork to do business under another name. I looked up pseudonym on-line to see how to do that. It had a lot of information about authors, which made me think of her term, temperamental - as in artists. Then I remembered her talking to me about the paintings on his walls. I looked up Andy Gordon and found lots of pictures of his paintings, but no pictures of him, and very little information about him. I thought that was odd. I finally searched the identity record in the US Copyright Office records for Andy Gordon and Yancey Giddon. That's where I found the connection. Andy Gordon and Yancey Giddon were the same person."