City of Masks by S. D. Sykes

Author:S. D. Sykes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pegasus Books

Chapter Seventeen

After my encounter with Vittore in the alley, I lay on my bed for a while, deciding what to do next, and knowing that I needed to make more progress with the investigation—especially now threats had been made against my mother. Taking out my pamphlet from its hidey-hole, I read over my notes regarding the two main strands of my investigation and the extent of my discoveries this far. I had had no success in finding Enrico’s lover, though I could not discount him as a suspect following Margery’s garbled testament regarding the man’s tendency toward violence. I had had more success with my investigation into Adolpho Bredani, if finding his dead body can be called an achievement. I could place Bredani near or at the scene of Enrico’s murder, and he had been in possession of an unexpectedly large amount of money at his death—so he and his associates had to be my main line of investigation. The trouble was that I knew so little about Bredani. So far, my questioning had elicited only that he was a handsome and dissolute young man who couldn’t really be trusted. Nobody could tell me where he went after hours, nor with whom he mixed. The man remained a mystery.

I turned my face to the bolster and gave a groan of frustration into the feathers, when an idea occurred to me. There was somebody within this very household who could tell me more about Adolpho—his sister, Filomena. This thought only provoked a second groan, since it was difficult enough to speak to Filomena under usual circumstances, let alone in the hours after she had given birth. I threw the bolster aside and got to my feet. I needed to try.

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