An African Adventure (Vince Hamilton Private Investigator Book 4) by Slaney Patrick

Author:Slaney, Patrick [Slaney, Patrick]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Patrick Slaney
Published: 2016-04-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

I used the time on the tube travelling back to East Putney to do some hard thinking. Being early afternoon, the carriage wasn’t crowded, so the journey was quite pleasant.

At the first opportunity I ‘phoned Carol to let her know that I couldn’t see her this afternoon, but that I would be at her place bright and early the following morning for our trip to Tonbridge. She sounded very disappointed that I wasn’t on my way to see her. She very pointedly told me that she had been on her own all day as Nick had been persuaded to go to school.

‘I’m sorry Carol but I had to go and pick Victoria up from her school today as we won’t be back from our trip to Tonbridge for me to pick her up tomorrow.’

‘Can your wife not walk her home from school?’ She still sounded upset.

‘She has to take her lunch break very late if she picks her up, so she prefers not to.’

‘She’d have to if you weren’t around Vince.’

‘That is what the whole argument with Daphne is about. She reckons that as I am retired now, I should be able to go every day,’ I tried to explain.

‘I am just very disappointed Vince that you didn’t think it worth your while to come and see me.’ She was making me feel bad about letting her down.’

‘Bye Carol, I’ll see you tomorrow.’ I ended the call.

I had a few more phone calls to make, but I decided to postpone them until I got home. The noise of the train made it difficult to hear what people were saying. The near empty train seemed to rattle a lot more than a full one.

Back home after my trip to Victoria's school, I telephoned Chief Inspector Baird.

‘Hi Inspector, it's Vince here, can I talk to you?’

‘As long as you don’t speak for too long; I have a meeting to go to in a few minutes.’

‘I want to ask your advice about something.’

‘OK, fire ahead Vince, I’ll just have to be late again.’

I quickly explained how we had met Alessandro Mariello at Coritos restaurant and what had transpired at that meeting.'

‘So you are saying that Luigi Bandarella was a partner in that restaurant.’

‘That’s right, and Clive paid large sums of money into the restaurant’s account. It was and probably still is a front for the Mafia.’

‘So what has happened now that Luigi is dead?’ I had obviously got the Inspector’s interest.

‘He has been replaced by another Italian by the name of Ugo La Rossa. This gentleman has also taken over the Maserati agency for London.’

‘So what do want me to do for you, Vince?’

‘Would you be able to check him out for us? I want to go and meet him and do a deal re the loans that Luigi gave Clive, but I don’t want to end up at the bottom of the Serpentine with a concrete collar.’

‘I will certainly do that for you and also for my own benefit. If he is on my patch, I want to know all about him.

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