06 Murder At the Pub by Jane Adams

Author:Jane Adams
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Mystery, Detective, Sleuths, &, Fiction, General, Women
Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Ted Eebry hadn’t gone to work. He’d been due to bid on a couple of mixed lots at the local auction house, but somehow he could not bring himself to go. Once there he’d have felt obliged to talk to people and Ted wasn’t sure he was up to that particular task.

Instead, he’d driven into Honiton and found a stationer’s he’d not used before and bought himself a will form, visited a convenience store for a bottle of cheap gin, and then come back and dug around in the medicine box for the strong painkillers left over from the time he’d dislocated his shoulder and the sleeping pills prescribed for Stacey after she’d got so stressed during her exams.

The labels on the pill bottles were faded and he didn’t bother to look at the dates on them. He’d been meaning to take the unused medicine back to the pharmacy for years, just like those adverts in the doctor’s said you should, but it had never seemed to get to the top of his list; instead, the tablets in their childproof containers had slid further and further down into the depths of the biscuit tin he used as a first aid box.

Ted had come home and locked the doors, lined up the gin and pills and the folded form on the kitchen table and spent the past half hour looking at them and wondering what to do next. He’d heard such horror stories about people who had not taken enough pills and had woken up with half their organs wrecked, or people who had taken too much at once and then just made themselves sick. He vaguely remembered reading somewhere that you should take the pills with milk, something to line your stomach, but he wasn’t sure if that was a real memory or something that had got itself conflated with his dad’s advice about going out in a boat.

Ted, unlike his dad, had always been a lousy sailor.

He wished he had the courage to get his computer out and Google the question, but that just seemed so inappropriate, and Ted always had this odd feeling that if you searched for something like that it would be found out – somehow people would know.

Taking a deep breath, Ted did what he always did when faced with a dilemma. He got up and put the kettle on.

From across the room Ted surveyed the pills, alcohol and unwritten will. Leaning against the kitchen counter he folded his arms across his chest and thought through his options one more time. He could give himself up to the police, but after all this time he’d have a hard job getting anyone to believe Kath’s death had just been an accident. I mean, why cover something up if it hadn’t been deliberate? Or he could go on as normal and hope no one put two and two together and worked out they added up to Ted.

Or he could . . . leave.

The kettle boiled and Ted made tea and took the pot back to the table, setting it down between the gin and the pills.

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