1 Murder at Dareswick Hall by Margaret Addison

Author:Margaret Addison [Addison, Margaret]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-05-18T00:00:00+00:00

‘It’s Deacon,’ Cedric said quietly to Rose on his return to the garden room. He had taken her by the arm and led her to the far end of the room where it was unlikely their conversation would be overheard by Hallam or Isabella. ‘He and Sergeant Lane are carrying out the investigation into Sneddon’s murder.’

‘That’s good, isn’t it?’ said Rose, looking relieved. ‘They won’t jump to any silly conclusions or try and build a case against someone when there isn’t any evidence.’

‘I don’t know,’ replied Cedric, thoughtfully. ‘Deacon’s a clever chap, but I think he’s got it into his head that either Hallam or Josephine are involved somehow in Sneddon’s death. It didn’t help me telling him about Hallam’s outburst on Friday night. I wish I’d kept quiet about that now. It doesn’t put the boy in a good light. Deacon probably thinks Hallam’s a loose cannon. He’s suspicious of Josephine too, which is hardly surprising. Goodness knows what she was thinking of just disappearing like that. Oh, if only he knew her like we do, he’d realise how ludicrous it is to suspect her of anything underhand, let alone murder.’

It was on the tip of Rose’s tongue to say that she hardly knew Josephine herself, and that she wasn’t sure how the girl usually acted, but thought it best to remain quiet. Instead she said: ‘Doesn’t he think that it’s far more likely that the murderer broke into the house or was just let in by Sneddon himself?’

‘No, the place is thoroughly locked at night and apparently the French windows in the library don’t open, although I find that hard to believe. So unless Sneddon trotted along to another room to let someone into the house, the police think his murderer must be someone from within.’

‘Sneddon looked pretty engrossed in the library when I left him,’ mused Rose, thinking back to her last sight of him, a broken and distraught man. She shivered. She should have stayed with him. If she had, then perhaps he would not be dead now. At the very least she should have shown pity or given encouragement. He had told her that he wished to make amends and now she would never know whether he would have followed through on his words. He had reached out to her for help and she had turned her back on him. It was that, she realised when she looked back over the events that followed, that made her feel that his death could not go unpunished and, if nothing else, she owed it to him to find his murderer and bring him to justice.

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