“I’ve got cops up and down the west coast stopping at every marina, looking for this guy’s car, and the Coast Guard’s put up fliers. I don’t have high hopes—for all we know, he launched it from his backyard—but there’s a chance. Got the serial number off the canoe, too. Michicraft’s going through their records, but they aren’t going to find anything. We don’t require registration on unpowered canoes, and I’ve got ten bucks that says that canoe is a used livery boat, probably sold in the late seventies. This guy could be the second owner of that canoe, or the hundredth. He might even have stolen it.”