Dead Pirates of Cawsand by Steve Higgs

Author:Steve Higgs [Higgs, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-07-14T05:00:00+00:00

Digging deeper. Wednesday, November 2nd 1000hrs

I pushed off the wall as I went, twisting in mid-air to land heavily on the toilet roof. I was right in the middle of it, its weakest point. There was a faint cracking noise as I edged back to the main wall of the pub and sidled to the edge. If there was anyone in the toilets they would have heard me land, so I wasted no time in getting down to the ground and leaving the premises.

Out on the street, I made sure I turned away from the direction the news crew van had been, jammed my hands into my pockets to warm them up and hurried off. My mind was whirling with possible scenarios from the overheard conversation. That Gretchen and Tilda were involved was a certainty as far as I was concerned. They were racists and appeared to be committing blatant racially motivated crimes. Was Roberta involved? I cast my mind back to the Halloween party she had taken me to. Several of her friends were Asian or Africa descent and she mingled with every race and orientation that evening without the slightest indication of bigotry.

I dismissed the notion that Roberta was colluding with her Mother. I doubted she even knew. The two older ladies had talked about last night and Saturday night, two nights on which violent ghost attacks had occurred. Were they also responsible for the murder? I had witnessed several television detectives state that it was always the wife when a man was murdered. Was there truth to the cliché this time?

Then I remembered the comment about investors.

I needed to do some digging. I jogged to the car, hoping the exercise would get my heart to pump some warm blood into my fingers. Once there I got the engine running and called Mum’s mobile.

‘Tempest, where are you?’ she asked. ‘Your father and I are just leaving.’

‘Change of plans, Mother. I need to check something out so will be taking a drive. Can you have the Dachshunds for a while? I will be back for lunch probably.’

‘Yes, okay. Where are you going?’

‘Bodmin probably. I learned some things in the fifteen minutes since you last saw me. I will tell you all about it when I get back.’

She sounded a little reluctant but acquiesced. I wanted to look at county records so would need a decent sized library within the County. The biggest town within sensible driving distance was Bodmin, so I was going there. Then I wondered if I needed to at all.

I remembered that Jane was sending me an email with a whole stack of property information on. My plan had been to go to the library because there I could access all kinds of records. I wanted to know about Tilda and Gretchen, about the different businesses in Cawsand. I really wanted to find out if the rumour about Julien Hogg building a hotel near the village was true but doubted I would be able to find that out.

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