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"Weird for you," I say "You live in your ownin a noisy dorm, especially on a floor with a lot of new students across the hall, away from home for the first time Lots of people in that situation can’t sleep withoutIt drowns out all the ambient noise These walls are thick, but not that thick Cooper, what are you doing?"

He’s taken one of his ubiquitous handkerchiefs from his pocket and hit the return key on the computer keyboard He always carries a neatly folded bandana (preferably in blue) somewhere on his person, a trick he picked up from one of hisfingerprints, he says

"Just checking to see the last thing she was doing on the co to iTunes" He squints down at the keyboard, then the screen "Twitter," he says with soust

Cooper refuses to participate in any for his private investigation business His clients come fro in--of all things--the phone book He seeh, proof that not everyone turns to the Internet for their professional needs

"What a shocker, a college student using Twitter," I say sarcastically "Now, co to bla up their crime sceneif her death turns out to be murder"

He pokes around a little ed on," he says "To Twitter It’s just the whaddayoucallit, hoe What was her Twitter handle?"

"Hoould I know?"

He looks around "Where’s her phone?"

I follow his gaze "I don’t know"

"Do you have her phone number? We could call her phone"

"Of course I have her nu out ency numbers I’d made "But why is it so important we find her phone?"

"Because then we can find the last person she was talking to It’s possible that person could give us a little insight into how she died"

"Or we could just wait for the OCME to tell us" I’ "And don’t you have a case of your own you’re supposed to be working on?"

"It’s insurance fraud, a little less pressing than this," Cooper says "No dead bodies are involved"