Yup. I was going to rush right out and do that.

"I always pack extra makeup," said Shirley. "Why don't I pick out some things that'll match your color palette and give them to you after breakfast. I owe you that much after what you did for me the other morning."

"What did she do for you?" Helen asked.

"Emily was so sweet. After I found Andy's body, all I could do was stand there screaming hysterically in the hallway. So she calmed me down and took me to her room. And there it was only four o'clock in the morning."

Dick Rassmuson squinted across the table at Shirley. "How'd you happen to find Andy's body at four in the morning?"

"He invited me to his room. And it's a good thing, too, because he might have been rotting there a long time if I hadn't come by when I did."

A knowing look made its way around the table. "You gotta give the little guy credit." Dick Teig laughed. "He knew how to lure a woman into the sack." He toasted the chair Andy had occupied that first night at dinner, then set his coffee cup down. "Did you bring my pills, Helen?"

Helen reached into her Triangle Tour bag and placed a small plastic container on the table. It was blue and divided into compartments that were labeled with the first letter of each day of the week.

"Is that the seven-day pill caddy?" asked Lucille. "Those weekly models are so obsolete." She reached down beside her and pulled out a larger plastic container with even more compartments. "This is the deluxe model. It holds two weeks' worth of medications and the lids are easy opening, in case you're suffering from arthritis. They also give you the first three letters for each weekday, in case you have predementia and can't remember if the T stands for Tuesday or Thursday or the S for Saturday or Sunday. Unfortunately, it doesn't help much if you're dyslexic."

Helen lifted her green eyebrows and smiled smugly. She reached into her bag again and held up a container that was larger yet. "This is the super deluxe model. It holds a month's supply of medications, has easy opening lids, spells out the entire day on each compartment, glows in the dark, and has a timing device that buzzes an alarm to remind you to take your next dosage."

I liked the idea of the thing buzzing an alarm, although if you were carrying a cell phone, I could see where you might not know whether to answer your phone or swallow a pill and could accidentally overdose.

"It also comes in five decorator colors," Helen added. "This particular color is called--"

"Melon!" cried Shirley, as excited as a game show contestant vying for a million dollars. "It's melon. I know it's melon because I have one just like it at home. I bought a new one for the trip, though." She rummaged in her bag and whipped out a container that was the size of a jelly roll pan. "This holds a month's worth of medications, too. It has the easy opening lids, an alarm, the day printed out, glows in the dark, plus it has two clocks--one for local time and one for the country you're visiting--a programmable calendar, a pager, and it plays a tune from a different Broadway musical every time you open one of the compartments. It's the ultra deluxe jumbo model."