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Why do people, particularly novelists, insist upon saying "you can't prove a negative?"
That's ridiculous. Of course you can. Sometimes easily. Sometimes you can't, but for that matter, sometimes you can't prove a positive either.
In a completely unrelated peeve, but one that occurred in the same, otherwise very enjoyable novel:
Writers, don't have the guy check the safety on his Chief's Special .38 revolver. With very rare and extraordinary exceptions, revolvers don't have safeties like that. It completely destroys the otherwise believable story world I was enjoying, and 10 more seconds of research when you picked what kind of gun to include would have shown you that.
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