Not listening, Monk checked the other exams in the pile for cheating. He found three others.

"We need to talk to Dr. Kenny before he leaves for the day" Charlie said with an impatient sigh after a while.

"Mr. Monk, the tests can wait" Natalie said.

"Let me worry about cheating among my students." Larry told Adrian.

Of course, by the time the sleuth finished, they could not locate Dr. Kenny.

At dinner, it was just Charlie and Alan. Monk and Natalie had gone back to their hotel.

"How'd it go?"

"He spent most of the afternoon looking at Larry's graded exams, to check for cheating"

"But he's not a mathematician!" Alan took a bite of potatoes au gratin. "How could he know?"

"Something about the writing being darker." Charlie smashed his peas out of frustration. "He claimed to have found four exams with evidence of cheating."

"He is an ex-cop. They tend to be more suspicious of people."

Just then, Don came in.

"Charlie was just telling me that the P.I he hired spent the whole afternoon checking exams to look for signs of cheating." Alan commented to get Don up to speed.

"It started when we went to Larry's office, and he decided to alphabetize some graded tests…"

"And he's actually solved cases?" Don asked as he served himself some food.

"Yeah! Once he proved that a guy in a coma sent mail bombs"

Alan and Don stopped eating and stared at him.

"Here is what happened: The guy glued the packages inside of those large, blue mail boxes you see on the sidewalks, using a special glue that last like a few months…"

"After which it would drop with the other mail" Don interrupted.

"His plan was to right before that was to happen, commit a hit and run in front of cops to land in jail for the perfect alibi." Charles continued.

"Is this when he got into a coma?" Alan asked. "During the hit and run?"

"Yeah." Charlie took another bite of meatloaf. "It didn't go as planned."

TBC