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“You don’t have to do that,” Maisie said.

“Don’t discourage them. This is really nice,” Anne said. “I’m going to clean up a couple of the rooms.”

Anne and Maisie didn’t offer daily cleaning service unless guests paid extra for it. Guests usually only stayed the night or two and then were off to another spot, exploring their surroundings from another lodging.

“I’ll be at the reservation desk,” Maisie said, “and after lunch, I have a photo shoot with Heather at the castle gardens.”

“For her maternity shoot?” Anne asked.

“Yeah.”

Anne said, “When I need a maternity photo shoot, I want you to do them too.”

Maisie laughed. “Oh, and I was thinking we should order our medieval Christmas gowns so that Edeen has time to make them.”

“Yeah, sure. You know which one I want. Just order two of them.”

Maisie smiled. “I’ll do that.”

When Anne went out to the guest rooms, Robert asked Maisie, “Do you often dress alike?”

“Sometimes. It’s not because we want to look like twins. We just really like the same things. But I might select something else because I really like everything that Edeen makes.” Maisie glanced at her laptop. “Oh, you already picked out the pictures you wanted?”

“Yeah. I wrote down the numbers here.”

“Okay, I’ll order the prints, and they should be here tomorrow through their expedited service.”

“Great.”

After Maisie ordered the prints, she began taking guest reservations, while Robert and William went back over the video.

“What about the vehicles? Let’s look at the earlier ones and see if we can locate anyone leaving in a vehicle who is wearing a wrist splint,” Robert said. As they were looking them over, he thought back to seeing the man they thought was Gus in the pie shop. He had been wearing a jacket, not a hoodie, gray trousers, and black boots. He couldn’t remember what kind. Maybe Heather would have security video that would show more of the man’s details than he recalled.

He got on his phone and called the shop. Heather answered. “Hey, it’s Robert. We’re looking into this matter with—” He wondered if she even knew about the dead body.

“I know about it. Enrick told me. What do you need to know?”

“When Maisie and I had lunch at your place, a man came in and ordered a pie. Maisie went to tell him that he’d left his driver’s license at the inn, and then after lunch we saw the man she thought she’d spoken to dead in the ocean.”

“Okay. So you want me to pull up security video to see what we can of him?” Heather asked.

“I’ll do it,” Callum said, butting in on Heather’s conversation.

“Do you see what I have to put up with?” Heather asked Robert.

Robert smiled. “Okay, Callum, if you can find any footage of the man Maisie had spoken to, send it to me, will you?”

“Is he the one who murdered the guy you found in the water?” Callum asked.

“We believe he’s Gus’s twin brother, Ike, but we need to know what he was wearing and if he had a wrist splint on his left arm.” They had to discount his own brother if they could. What if he had only said he was looking for his brother, but in truth, he had been the one who had murdered him? Or what if they were mistaken about Gus’s identity, the body was Ike’s, and Gus had been the murderer?

“I’ll send what I can find on it,” Callum said.

“Thanks.”

Heather said, “Okay, that keeps Callum out of my hair for a bit.”

Robert laughed. “Thanks for helping us with this.”