1906413703.(F) by Gunnar Staalesen
Author:Gunnar Staalesen [Gunnar Staalesen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781909807013
Publisher: Arcadia Books Limited
Published: 2013-01-27T11:00:00+00:00
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Hamreâs expression was ironic. âYou donât look so good.â
âWho, me? I havenât felt this good in a long time.â Which said more about how I had been feeling lately than it did about how I felt now. And anyway, it was a lie. Whisky the day after tends to leave the ashes of old newspapers in your mouth and you canât seem to get rid of them. Iâd already stopped trying.
Hamre sat on the law-abiding side of one of those desks everybody is issued with in offices that have the personality of a deodorant. The walls are always grey-white, the books are always the same books, the viewâs always the same. A beautiful inspiring view of the middle of a bank built in the most forgettable possible style.
I sat on the clientâs side â along with the ghosts of all the suspects, all the eyewitnesses, all those who had information they thought might matter to an investigation. It wasnât a comfortable chair, but it shouldnât have been. It was the kind of chair you donât want to settle down in and so you get right to the point and you donât waste time chit-chatting.
Hamre handed me a typed statement of what Iâd said at the scene of the murder.
âFill out the personal stuff at the top,â he said. âOtherwise I hope itâs correct.â
I read through it. The letters seemed to bunch oddly into words. My eyes were tired. But it was correct as far as it went.
I filled in the blanks and then signed.
âHe had a girlfriend. Did you know that?â Hamre said.
âUmm â who did?â I said.
âThe Pope,â he said. âWho do you think weâre talking about?â
âOh. The Pope. I didnât know he went in for that kind of thing.â
Hamre moved a transparent green rule carefully from the left over to the right. Studied it for a few seconds. Then he moved it back. It was probably his way of counting to twenty.
âJonas Andresen had a girlfriend. Did you know that?â
I looked at him.
âYou knew that,â he said. âWhy didnât you tell us before?â
âI didnât know her name,â I said. âAnd anyway, it wasnât easy with Wenche, with Fru Andresen there.â
âHow close are you two anyway? Good friends?â
âWho?â
âYou and Wenche Andresen.â
âShe and I? Iâve only known her for about a week. We havenât had time to be good friends.â
âBut that doesnât necessarily mean you havenât slept with her.â
âNo. It doesnât necessarily mean I havenât. But it does mean that I havenât. In this case.â
âAll this â you saw her running, you saw Jonas Andresen going to the door, etc., etc.â He nodded at the statement. âThis isnât some kind of friendly favour?â He let the question hang there a while. âYou really saw all this?â
I wasnât in shape for these questions. âYes, I saw it, and no, it isnât a friendly favour. If Iâd been going to do her a friendly favour, Iâd have done her a friendlier favour. I wouldnât have given Joker â Johan Pedersen â an alibi, for example.
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