A Very English Murder by Bethany Russell

Author:Bethany Russell [Russell, Bethany]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-01-11T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

“He’s lovely,” the elderly lady with pure white hair and half-moon spectacles assured Billy. “Oh my, he is a peach.”

“I just want to double-check that we’re talking about the same person?” Billy confirmed. “Roger, from the Washroom? Blonde, chubby... the biggest nose you’ve ever seen in your life? Him?”

“The very same.” The elderly lady was sitting on a park bench not two blocks from the Washroom. She wasn’t doing anything on the bench, rather than sitting and watching the world go by, but Billy had seen her there several times already and figured her for a local that would know a thing or two about the town and its inhabitants.

Billy pressed his lips together. “Can you think of anything he might have done that is... I don’t know… sinister?”

“Sinister?” The woman gasped. “Heaven’s no – why just last week, he helped me carry my groceries to the car. There I was, struggling like an old ham to cart my trolley down the pavement and he popped up from nowhere, like an angel, and did the job for me. Such a gent.”

This wasn’t the answer that Billy had been hoping for... But it was the one he had been expecting. All morning he had been getting told how brilliant of a man Roger was, how Roger couldn’t hurt a fly, and how Roger just might be Jesus reborn... more or less. Billy didn’t know why he had thought that the sweet old lady might tell him something different either, but by that point he was desperate.

Billy hated to admit it, but his mother had been right. His charging into the Washroom like a stead on heat was the epitome of bad detective work, and not something that he usually aspired to. As a Private Investigator back in Fortune’s Valley, Billy had always prided himself on his ability to detach himself from cases and assess them on facts, rather than emotion. On this particular case, he’d let his personal feelings get in the way. Two men were dead, Amelie was upset and he’d seen red.

Like a petulant child, it had taken a talking to from his mother to make him see the error of his ways. But now that he had, things were going to change. Billy knew who the killer was, but he still had to prove it. To prove it he’d need evidence and to collect evidence, he’d need to learn a little more about his target.

“Oh, we know all about Roger, don’t we dear.” Brandon Ruffull sat with his hand in his wife, Maisy’s lap. She massaged his fingers and stroked his palm.

“We most certainly do,” she agreed rightly. “And let me tell you, there was no shortage of surprises when it came to that particular individual.” She gave Brandon’s hand a kiss and then continued to rub and massage it.

Billy found the two having a picnic at Prior Park Landscape Garden, underneath a large Juniper. It was a whole production with blankets, baskets, music, candles that weren’t

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