Murder at the Arlington: Chapter 22

Kathleen Kaska
11 min readMar 18, 2024

Once Officer O’Riley arrived to stand guard outside Ruth’s door, I went back to the Arlington to gather a few things so I could spend the night at the hospital. Ruth was physically fine, but I knew she’d be frightened.

I came through the employees’ entrance so I wouldn’t run into anyone. The story of our adventure had to be all over the hotel, if not the entire city. I grabbed a change of clothes and…

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Kathleen Kaska

Author of the Sydney Lockhart mysteries and the Kate Caraway mysteries. I blog about, “Growing Up Catholic in a Small Texas Town.”