"You found Darlene Draper," asked Hamilton.

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"Yes," Kim Winter spoke firmly, and, despite his nervousness, affected no feminine mannerisms at all. “And I called the police right away." His tone implied that the cooperation he had supplied had not been matched by the police.

Ignoring that for the moment, Hamilton led Winter through a series of routine questions. Kim had attended the last show which had starred the Conway Sisters as usual. He'd seen Lana and Jeannette, the other Sisters, when they came back into the bar for a drink before they went out together through the main door and westward to their cabin. Kim had also seen the 'waitresses" off for the night, and had whistled up Satan, his German Shepherd, to start the night's inspection. Ten minutes later, Satan had whined going out into the back passage, and so the first murder had been uncovered. Kim had known Darlene for several years. She's been pretty nervous about cross-dressing when Kim has first met 'her', but the beauty and dancing courses put on at the Camp had really brought out the woman in "her."

She'd been pretty nervous-but not she'd become so good that, after one of the amateur talent shows, Lana Conway had asked 'her' to join the Sisters. They'd lost Julie, one of the originals, to marriage and growing children.

Kim had only known Christine and Betty Ewell for the last two years. Kim didn't like Betty who was very loudmouthed, drank a lot, teased the visitors and guests at the camp unmercifully about their proclivities, and was just a general embarassment to the ladylike Christine. "I could think of a few people who'd like to have her done in," said Kim acidly. The Ewells had been in the bar, and later in the Cabaret, Kim also remembered, but at what time they left, he couldn't

say.

"May I ask a favor, Sergeant?" Kim asked, when Hamilton indicated that the questioning was finished for the present. Hamilton, a little surprised, nodded. "You're in complete charge, aren't you?" asked the camp owner. "Well, you probably have been told that this camp is open to transvestites all the year roud? Gantsby tells that to the authorities all the time, but that isn't totally true. We do rent out to other groups, and it's one of these groups that's coming in on Monday," He was staring intently at the city detective.