Behind The Wire: A British Murder Mystery (DI Declan Walsh Crime Thrillers Book 9) (Detective Inspector Declan Walsh) by Jack Gatland

Author:Jack Gatland [Gatland, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hooded Man Media
Published: 2022-02-12T16:00:00+00:00

Maybe if he was closer to the doorway?

Slowly, Declan clambered up the fallen stones, holding out the phone in front of him, watching for even a flicker of a signal.

There wasn’t any.

And the air was thinning again as Declan coughed on more dislodged stone dust.

As Declan felt the world swirling around him once more, the phone lit up and mocked him again.

Your message could not be sent.

But Declan didn’t see this message.

Because Declan had passed out.

12

BALLISTICS

Anjli and De’Geer were in the office with Billy when Monroe arrived. As he placed the kitbag on a table, he noticed Anjli glance towards the door, as if looking for someone.

‘He’s gone to look at caves, lassie,’ Monroe smiled. ‘I’m sure he misses you, too.’

Anjli scowled at Monroe, but he noticed a slight reddening of her cheeks.

‘Brought your dirty laundry?’ she asked, changing the subject and nodding at the kitbag.

‘Edward Moses’ personal items,’ Monroe was already opening it, coughing at the musty, old clothes smell. ‘Been left in a guesthouse basement since he disappeared.’

‘So you worked out where he was then?’ Billy looked up from the laptop. ‘Sorry, do I still call you Guv, now you’re suspended? I don’t know the protocols.’

‘Even if I’m working in a supermarket, you call me Guv,’ Monroe intoned solemnly. ‘And yes, your scan of the paper gave Declan the clue to check a guest house in Castleton. Bit of a weird one, to be honest.’

‘How so?’ De’Geer asked, before adding a hasty ‘Guv?’

‘Well, this is apparently everything Moses owned, apart from a toy gun,’ Monroe replied, waving at the bag. ‘According to the landlady, that was picked up after he disappeared by our dead Lieutenant Colonel Falconer.’

He noticed a look of shock pass between Anjli and De’Geer.

‘Okay, what have I missed?’ he asked.

Anjli walked over to another table against the wall, where a plastic storage box was now resting.

‘Did they describe the gun?’ she rummaged in the box as she spoke.

‘Just that it was a metal cap gun,’ Monroe said, following her. ‘Said they thought it was a real gun until they realised you couldn’t put bullets into it.’

Anjli pulled out the gun she’d found in Falconer’s room, still in the clear plastic bag, out of the box.

‘Like this, maybe?’ she asked.

Monroe took the gun, holding it up in his hands as he stared at it in a mixture of surprise and admiration.

‘Bloody hell, lassie,’ he muttered. ‘Good work. Good work, the pair of you.’

‘It’s a Remington 1858 New Model Army,’ De’Geer explained. ‘Although Billy’s just been telling us it’s not actually from then, exactly, just that the patent was applied for back then.’

‘And it’s a replica, not an original,’ Anjli added. ‘we found it hidden in a secret drawer with a Nazi medal.’

Monroe raised his eyebrows at this.

‘That’s a turn of events,’ he said, examining the base of the gun. ‘But I don’t believe this is the gun Falconer took from Eddie Moses. The landlady said her son was playing with it before he arrived, and he’d scratched the word ‘boy’ into the handle.

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