City of Good Death by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781910859933
Publisher: Canelo Books
Published: 2019-07-17T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Forty One

‘Professor Marsans?’ the young plain-clothes policeman greeted him affably in the foyer to the Mossos d’Esquadra station in Vista Alegre. ‘Thank you for coming.’

‘Um, delighted,’ Marsans replied. He had steeled himself over a café amb gel in the bar on the corner before walking through the glass doors into the police station, but he hadn’t let the ice melt properly in the thick black coffee and it was sitting heavily in his stomach. Killing time in the bar, he hadn’t known what to expect but he had to admit, it wasn’t this educated cordiality. Like all his contemporaries, he’d distrusted the old Spanish police since his days of student demos and sit-ins, a distrust that had deepened throughout his adult life of staff room politics and posturing, and the Mossos had done little or nothing to change that attitude as far as he was concerned.

‘My name is Caporal Pau Yáñez,’ the policeman in front of him continued, ‘and I’m a member of the Serious Crime Unit. Would you be so kind as to follow me?’

Mystified, Marsans followed the quietly-spoken officer out of the reception area and along a corridor. The policeman stopped in front of a door and ushered Marsans in.

‘I’m afraid we’re going to have to use an interview room,’ Pau told him, ‘but it will be comfortable enough.’

Marsans went into the room and sat down on a straight-backed chair at the table in the centre of the room. Pau took another chair and placed it at the end of the table at a right-angle to Marsans. He placed a folder he’d been carrying, unopened, in front of him.

Marsans stared at it. ‘May I ask what this is all about?’

The policeman looked taken aback. ‘You have spoken to my superior?’ he asked. ‘Sotsinspectora Domènech?’

‘I haven’t spoken to anyone. I rang as I was asked, but there was no one available to take my call. I was simply asked to come here to meet you.’

Marsans looked on in surprise as the policeman shook his head and sighed.

‘I’m terribly sorry, Professor Marsans. There’s evidently been a mix-up. It’s entirely our fault. You were supposed to be put through to either Sotsinspectora Domènech or me. I really cannot apologise enough.’

Marsans fluttered his fine fingers nervously.

‘I should explain,’ Pau continued, gathering his thoughts. ‘I’ve no doubt you’re aware of these unusual events that have been occurring in the city over the last few weeks. With Mònica Ferrer and Mossèn Viladrau.’

‘Yes, of course,’ Marsans replied cautiously. He was finding the room rather stuffy.

‘Okay, first of all, I have to ask you to take everything I’m going to say to you now in the strictest confidence. These are police matters and they must be kept entirely out of the public domain. I’m afraid we would have to ask you to sign a written undertaking not to disclose anything of what we discuss.’

Marsans hesitated before replying. ‘I imagine that would be all right, Caporal…’

‘Yáñez,’ Pau reminded him. Pau turned his gaze away for a moment and placed his hand on the folder, sliding it over to the space between them.

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