Run: 2026-09-23-01M37PDMZ7KTQ1BACC81YVBJZY

The bell over the door of the Crumb & Kettle jingled just as the first batch of cinnamon rolls came out of the oven. "You're open early." "I'm always open early. You're the one who's never up before nine, Walter." "Couldn't sleep. Not after what happened at the church bake sale." "If this is about Margaret's lemon bars, I already told the sheriff everything I know." "Did you tell him the recipe card was missing?" "How do you know about that?" "Because I found it. Tucked inside a hymnal, third pew from the back." "Well, don't just stand there dripping rain on my clean floor. Let me see it." "Look at the bottom. That's not Margaret's handwriting." "No, it isn't. See that lowercase g with the fancy loop? Only one person in Maple Hollow writes like that." "The new choir director." "Who, I might add, bought two dozen of my blueberry muffins yesterday and asked an awful lot of questions about which nuts I keep in the back." "So what do we do?" "We do what any sensible person would do. We have a cinnamon roll, we pour ourselves some coffee, and then we pay him a friendly little visit." "Friendly?" "Walter, dear, I'm always friendly. Right up until I'm not."