A Poisoning at the Pageant by R.B. Marshall

Author:R.B. Marshall [Marshall, R.B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aye Alba Publishing

“You what?” Trinity glared at me, fire blazing from her eyes.

I held up my palms. “Steady on. You’d have been glad if I’d researched Richard’s background in time to realise that he was a murderer. Or Termie, for that matter. I’m just looking out for you.”

Breathing heavily, she clenched her jaw, a muscle jumping in her cheek. Finally she dropped her gaze. “Would you have told me if it wasn’t good news?” she asked, closing the book on her lap.

“Of course. Definitely. That was the whole point of checking Blake out, wasn’t it?” I was beginning to think I should have kept quiet about his clean rap sheet. Maybe that would have been more savvy, if less honest. But I’d learn my lesson and know better next time. “I told you that I investigated Craig out before we got too involved, didn’t I? It just makes sense, in this day and age.”

“You might have a point there. Okay.” Her shoulders dropped, and her face relaxed. “So he ain’t an axe murderer or a wife beater?”

“Not as far as I can tell. Most of his photos on social media are of horses or re-enactments.”

Then her face clouded. “He ain’t in that Horseman Club, is he?”

“The Horseman’s Guild? I don’t think so. But that’s a good point, I should probably look. Not that being in that society is necessarily a bad thing, but…” I lifted a shoulder.

“Yeah. Can’t say I’ve liked what I’ve heard about them up till now.”

“Same,” I said. It was probably just a rather unfortunate coincidence, but the two murderers I’d unearthed so far had been members of the guild, as had most of their victims. It would definitely be prudent to confirm that Blake wasn’t mentioned in the guild membership. Just in case.

However, unsurprisingly, being a secret society along masonic lines their membership files and meeting minutes weren’t on public record.

But I had a secret weapon at my disposal—Gremlin, the deep web search engine app that I’d written as a university project. It had proven very useful in my work with Aye Spy Investigations, not to mention how it had helped with solving the previous cases.

Gremlin was just what I needed now, and I could leave it to work away while I turned my attention to the next person on my list: Orla’s husband, Samuel O’Brien. It was only prudent to check out the murdered woman’s next of kin, even if he had been miles away in Glasgow at the time. It wasn’t beyond the realms of possibility that he’d hired someone to do away with his wife, so I had to examine every possibility.

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