The email on my phone showed over five hundred possible license plates with that combination, but only three were associated with a town car.

I’d been up half the night in my office while Ava slept contacting the companies that owned the three cars.

Most of them were closed for the night and the one I spoke to needed to wait until the owner got in to give me any information.

It was a great chance to figure out who had that car the night of the ball. However, whether the ...