A Puzzle for Logan by Richard Macandrew

Author:Richard Macandrew
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: antique
ISBN: 9780521686396
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-06-01T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7 A very good reason to kill

Back at the London Road police station, Logan and Grant sat opposite Campbell in a windowless room. The clock on the wall showed eleven thirty. A cassette recorder on the table recorded their conversation. Ronnie sat forward in his chair, his arms on the table, his head in his hands. He was wearing a white T-shirt, jeans and trainers. A blue jacket was on the back of his chair. A paper cup of water was on the table in front of him. Since they had brought him into the room he had said nothing.

Logan waited until Campbell looked up at her. ‘Why did you escape, Ronnie?’ she asked.

Campbell looked her straight in the eye. ‘Because I wanted to get out,’ he replied.

‘Don’t play games with us,’ said Grant crossly. ‘You know what the inspector means.’

Campbell looked at Grant and said nothing.

Logan spoke again. ‘Ronnie, you know that first, almost no-one escapes. Second, if you do escape, you are almost certainly caught. Third, the only way to stay free is to have friends outside to give you money and get you out of the country. And you don’t have any friends outside, do you?’ Campbell said nothing. Logan and Grant said nothing. The room stayed quiet.

After a few minutes Logan said, ‘Do you remember the girl who said she saw you and Sinclair in the Abbotsford Arms?’

Campbell looked up again. This time his eyes looked hard. He still said nothing.

‘Do you remember her name?’ asked Logan.

Campbell said nothing. Logan looked at Grant.

‘Come on, Ronnie,’ said Grant. ‘I’ve told you - stop the games. You remember Morag Mackenzie. You won’t forget her name quickly, will you? Well, she was killed yesterday, soon after you escaped. In fact probably about the time you got to Edinburgh. Someone cut her throat.’

There was a strange look on Ronnie’s face: he looked surprised and afraid.

Grant continued: ‘The inspector asked why you escaped. My answer is that you’ve spent seven years in prison because of Morag Mackenzie and you’ve still got time left to spend there. Morag Mackenzie gave the police important information that meant you were caught and sent to prison. I think you escaped so you could find Morag and murder her . . . ’

Campbell jumped up out of his chair.

‘Stop it!’ he shouted. ‘I didn’t kill Morag Mackenzie and I didn’t kill Craig Sinclair. I didn’t even know Morag Mackenzie was dead.’

‘But you did know where she lived, didn’t you?’ said Logan. She wasn’t at all sure that he did know but it seemed possible since the blue Audi was found near her flat.

‘Yes, I did,’ Campbell said. ‘I know someone who knows her.’

‘So what happened when you went to see her?’ said Logan. Again she didn’t know that he had been to see Morag but it seemed possible; probable even.

‘I didn’t see her,’ said Campbell.

‘You were seen,’ said Grant, following Logan’s thoughts and letting Campbell think they knew more than they actually did. ‘We found the car near her flat and you were seen going there.

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