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forced or otherwise. According to the police, that showed she hadn’t been killed by someone trying to rob or rape her. I talked to the detectives myself yesterday.”
    â€œWhat’s Stanley say about that?”
    â€œHe claims those facts are equally consistent with a homicide motivated by something other than rape or robbery.” I took a bite of my quiche. “There was no suicide note.”
    â€œReally?”
    â€œThe police couldn’t find one, and they did a thorough search. No note in her apartment, in her office, on her computer, in her email, on her Facebook page, on her body, in her car. Nowhere.”
    â€œIs that significant?”
    â€œStanley thinks so, but the detectives told me that many people kill themselves without leaving a suicide note.”
    â€œSo what about Stanley’s evidence?”
    â€œThey confirmed that the heel on her left shoe was missing and that Stanley had found the missing heel. They’re going to run the prints on the Blistex tube, but they said the results won’t change their conclusion.”
    â€œWhy not?”
    â€œTheir view is that things can fall out of an open purse, especially if she was in the process of climbing over the barrier. If you’re about to kill yourself and a tube of lip balm falls out of your purse, why would you even care?”
    â€œWhat’s Stanley say?”
    â€œIn his scenario, she’s walking to her car and looking in her purse for her keys when she’s attacked. The tube falls out during the struggle and rolls under another car.”
    Benny shook his head. “I know you say this guy is smart, but does he really think a broken heel and a Blistex tube are proof of murder?”
    â€œHe views them as corroborating evidence.”
    â€œCorroborating what?”
    â€œThat she wasn’t depressed or suicidal.”
    â€œAnd what’s that based on?”
    I sighed. “Her face.”
    â€œHer face?”
    â€œYes.” I smiled. “To quote Stanley, ‘I can assure you, Ms. Gold, that the orbicularis oris never lies.’”
    â€œWho?”
    â€œNot who. What. The orbicularis oris is apparently a facial muscle.”
    Benny stared at me. “A what?”
    â€œI’m serious. Stanley is the idiot savant of facial muscles.”
    â€œWhat the hell is a facial muscle?”
    â€œNormal people can tell whether someone is happy or sad or angry just by looking at their face. People with Stanley’s autism problem can’t. They can’t read other people’s emotions and moods. It causes all kinds of problems for them. According to his mom, a few years ago a doctor gave Stanley a chart of facial expressions. It’s a chart created specifically for people with his problem. It shows a set of six or so basic facial expressions, and each one is labeled. So there’s Happy and Sad and Angry and Scared. The goal is to help people like Stanley recognize the emotional states of people around them.”
    â€œOkay.”
    â€œThe chart fascinated Stanley. He started doing research and learned all about FACS, which is an acronym for the Facial Action Coding System.”
    â€œWhat the hell is that?”
    â€œFrom what I understand, FACS is a whole field of study. It identifies every muscle in your face and assigns an action code for each possible contraction or relaxation of one or more of those muscles. There are something like two dozen facial muscles and more than a hundred action codes, and hundreds of possible combinations. There’s this famous FACS manual. It’s more than five hundred pages long, and you can apparently use it to identify every possible emotion and mental state. For example, there are certain action codes for a genuine, involuntary smile, and other action codes for a fake one, like when a photographer tells you to smile.”
    â€œWhat’s the purpose of all that?”
    â€œApparently, there are lots of