Death of an Artist (Riley Rochester Investigates Book 5) by Wendy Soliman

Author:Wendy Soliman [Soliman, Wendy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

The rain persisted for the duration of the train journey into Dulwich, a grim reflection of their progress with the investigation, Riley thought. Low clouds shrouded the countryside, mirroring the fog in Riley’s brain. Far from not having any suspects, they were accumulating more by the hour, but had yet to find anyone other than the station master who saw Miss Mottram return from London on the night she died, or place any of the suspects in her company at the vital time. Riley was depending upon Carter and Soames’s enquiries to bear fruit. Never underestimate the usefulness of gossips.

A husband. Riley had not even considered the possibility, but now that he was aware of Treadwell’s existence, it cast the victim in an entirely different light. If Mottram was to be believed, Treadwell was the last word in respectability, understanding and patience. Even so, Miss Mottram’s assumption that she could get away indefinitely with passing herself off as something she was not defied belief. And yet she had got away with it—until someone literally stabbed her in the back. Which of their suspects had the most compelling reason to resort to deadly violence?

Riley admitted to himself that he didn’t have the first idea.

The two detectives went directly to Dulwich College and again asked to see Renshaw. Riley was aware that senior detectives grilling a member of the college faculty twice in as many days would raise disapproving eyebrows as well as suspicions. But the young man, when he appeared, seemed resigned to their visit.

‘Is there something more I can help you with, gentlemen?’ he asked politely, seating himself across from Riley, on the opposite side of the small table in the equally small room that had once more been made available to them. ‘Have you made progress with your investigation?’

Salter shrugged himself off the wall and took a few steps towards Renshaw, leaning forward until their noses almost touched. ‘You can start but not mucking us about and telling us the truth!’ He shouted. Startled, Renshaw flinched and drew back in his chair.

‘You gave Miss Mottram a reference,’ Riley said, motioning Salter to stand back.

‘Oh hell, I hoped you wouldn’t find out about that.’ He dropped his head into his splayed hands. ‘I’ve made a bit of a fool of myself. How much do you know?’

‘We have spoken to Mrs Treadwell’s father.’ Riley deliberately referred to the victim by her married name, looking for a reaction. In came in the form of a minuscule wince, so fleeting that Riley would have missed it had he not been studying Renshaw closely. ‘And to the agency who found her the position with the Vermonts. That is how we discovered your prior involvement, but that would not have been necessary if you’d been honest with us from the outset. As an educated man, you will be aware that deliberately misleading a murder investigation is a criminal offence. You are probably also clever enough to realise that lying to us is not only

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