By the time Scarlett gets Viv home to the hat shop where they live above the shop, Viv is flamboyant in her drunkenness and gives away their adventures to Harrison and Alistair, the friend serving as Ariana’s barrister. Mariska gets Viv drunk, though Scarlett avoids trying to keep up with the Russian woman in her drinking. At Mariska’s apartment, she serves them “tea,” which turns out to be what she turn calls special Russian potato tea, in otter words vodka. But they break this promise almost immediately when they go to visit Mariana, the former girlfriend of Russo, each thinking the other alerted Harrison. He extracts a promise that the two women will let him know each time they make plans to talk to anyone they suspect.
But this time, Viv agrees with Scarlett, leaving Harrison alone as the sole individual fighting against their interfering. In the past, Harrison has fought hard against Scarlett’s doing her own detecting, and Viv has supported him. But Scarlett and Viv do not believe in the guilt of Ariana and determine to get to the truth. Further, Russo was grasping a piece of Ariana’s blouse in his hand, making Ariana look earn more guilty. It doesn’t take long before the police arrest Ariana, saying Russo was dead longer than if he just fell. Arriving, Scarlett hears screaming and rushes around the side of the building, where she finds Ariana bending over the body of a crushed Russo, who fell (was pushed?) off the building.
Not having heard back from Ariana to approve their estimate, Scarlett goes to Ariana’s office, where she works as assistant to Anthony Russo, attorney to the stars with a reputation for dirty tricks.
Ariana pulls out a hat made by their grandmother years earlier, a hat worn by her late mother at her wedding and which Ariana wants to wear at her own upcoming wedding but which needs repair work. Viv, who waa trained by Mim, the girls’ grandmother, gasps as she sees Ariana pull out an old hat box that used to be the one used by the shop long before Mim died. One day a friend of Harrison, the business manager of and partner in Mim’s Whims, the hat shop established by the cousins’ grandmother, comes into the shop. Scarlett Parker, her cousin Viv, and their friends get involved in another mystery in At the Drop of a Hat by Jenn McKinlay.
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