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“So how did you know it was a forgery?”
“Aside from the fact that no-one under fifty uses cheques on a regular basis?”
“Well, this wasn’t a ‘regular basis’ check, was it?”
“No.”
“Oh, go on, Sherlock, it’s for the blog. It’ll be educational.”
“If you’d wanted to know, you could have come along.”
“Some of us have day jobs, Sherlock.”
“Blue.”
“I’m sorry?”
“Blue ink.”
“But it was written in black.”
“Precisely. Everything else Aggie Parker had was written in blue ink, signed in blue ink. One could make the argument that black was what she had on hand at the time of the signing, but for such a significant amount, I doubt she would have written it on the spur of the moment.”
“It might have been a dark navy.”
“But it wasn’t, and Spangler is safely in the clink depsite a near-perfect facsimile of her signature. Besides, Aggie Parker favors such a distinctive shade of electric blue. I might do a study on inks for the website next.”
“I’ll make sure to put a link to that on the blog then, if it gets written.”
“When it gets written, John.”
“As you say.”
“Thank you. Tea?”