Day of the Dandelion by Peter Pringle

Author:Peter Pringle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2007-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

Across a bridge over the Limmat River and through the Old Town Arthur found the Hotel Monch. It was a three-story house turned into a small hotel, badly in need of a facelift. Probably a few other things besides. He was prepared to bet it was not in the guidebook.

He walked the length of Brunngasse, down one side and up the other. On the corner of Neumarkt, a blue Audi, an A6 Quattro, was parked, just as Haber had described. There was a driver inside but sunvisors obscured his face. The driver would have a full view of the entrance to the hotel, Arthur guessed. He resisted the temptation to go and bang on the window. Instead he took the car’s number and walked into the hotel, his back to the Audi. There was no point in advertising his arrival.

The lobby smelled of stale tobacco smoke and disinfectant and Arthur could have written his name in the dust on the counter of the reception desk. He asked for Tanya Petrovskaya, but the receptionist, an elderly, oversized woman who barely fit into the space behind the counter, was on the phone speaking in French about her dog’s visit to the vet. After Arthur had coughed loudly several times, she broke off to say that Mademoiselle Petrovskaya had not spent a night in the hotel since she arrived two days ago, adding, almost as an afterthought, that if she did not turn up tonight, the hotel was going to inform the police. Then she resumed her conversation. Arthur picked up a copy of the Zuricher Zeitung lying on the desk and walked out into the street, shielding his face with the newspaper. Then he walked through the Old Town to his hotel, the Rosengarten, on a quiet residential street, away from the shops and close to the Kunsthaus, Zurich’s best art museum. In his room, he left the license number of the Audi on Haber’s recording machine, in case it was a different car from the one Haber had described.

He phoned Eva and left a message asking her to check out the New York law firm of Jennings, Philpott & Redfern and see if they had ever worked for Transgene, Panrustica, or anyone else interested in apomictic maize patents. Then he asked the operator for the number for a Louise Beauchamp. The number was unlisted.

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