Chapter 42 Summary

Archer heads for Jack Lennox's house. He loads Harold's gun and takes it with him. Archer approaches the house cautiously. He sees the dead bird that Laurel tried to clean up lying on the patio. Marian Lennox tells him to go away and tries to deny that Laurel is in the house. Archer tells her that Jack sent him and moves into the house to remove Jack's gun from the corner. Marian says that Laurel flushed the Nembutal pills down the toilet at Captain Somerville's house before coming home. She also tells Archer about how Laurel pushed Nelson over the cliff. Marian does not have any better suggestion for why Laurel killed Nelson that her husband did.

When Marian mentions Laurel remembering Nelson from Allie Russo's house, Archer asks her how she knows about that. Marian says that she went to pick Laurel...