A Matter of Loyalty (A Very English Mystery Book 3) by Anselm Audley & Elizabeth Edmondson

Author:Anselm Audley & Elizabeth Edmondson [Audley, Anselm]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781542046589
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Published: 2017-10-18T23:00:00+00:00

Scene 5

‘Did you search the cottage, back in September?’ Hugo asked MacLeod, once Saul had been returned to his cell.

The cottage’s previous owner had found himself in very deep water at the time of his death, in more ways than one. Hugo had been involved in the affair itself, but he’d had other things to worry about in the aftermath.

‘Your people did. Sent a unit from London, turned it inside out. Nothing there at the time, so the gun can’t have been a leftover, if that’s what you’re wondering. As to the particulars, we can confirm Ingham’s story with Mrs Pearson.’

‘She’s in London at the moment,’ said Hugo, remembering his encounter on the station platform.

‘She’ll be back soon enough, no particular hurry there. We’ve got some of our men going door to door in Long Combe to see whether there are any witnesses, but I’m satisfied with the way things are going at the moment.’

‘Even with an anonymous tip-off?’

‘In police work we take what we can get. Not like your world, where everything could be some game run by Moscow spymasters. In my experience of the sort of criminals we get here in Selchester, most of them would last about five minutes in the London underworld, let alone the sort of things you deal with. You can see their lies coming half a mile away. There hasn’t been a single thing we’ve found out about Mr Ingham which doesn’t fit, and if that’s pure coincidence, I’ll hand in my police badge right away.’

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