If I could compose an alternate plot for Mary Higgins Clark’s novel, No Place Like Home, I would have made Jeff MacKingsley to listen to Sergeant Clyde Earley’s plan, and search through the trash behind Henry’s without the search warrant. If Jeff accompanied Clyde, he wouldn’t have been cocky and made it so obvious that the evidence of the red paint used in the vandalism was found by leaving the trash can tipped over and open on the ground. Therefore, Henry would not have noticed that the police had gained insight that he was the one who had caused the vandalism, and without informing his boss of the problem, would have stayed alive. The police would find away around the warrant and find Henry guilty, however, they would have never had
