Death on the Aisle by Lockridge Richard & Lockridge Frances

Author:Lockridge, Richard & Lockridge, Frances [Lockridge, Richard & Lockridge, Frances]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery
ISBN: 9780553065121
Amazon: 0553065122
Goodreads: 3225125
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 1942-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

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Tuesday: 9.20 p.m. To 10.45 p.m.

KIRK stood up and walked back to meet Weigand. He shook his head as he walked back.

“Not a word, Lieutenant,” he said. “La Grady seems to think she doesn’t have to come to evening rehearsals. D’you want her?”

“Damn it all,” Weigand said. “I want everybody. I can’t have people wandering off and not coming back.” He walked on down, Kirk falling in a step behind him, and addressed the cast.

“I want all of you to understand that,” he said. “Just because we let you go on here as if nothing had happened doesn’t mean that nothing has—or that any of you can wander off without talking with us first. Do you all understand that?”

He was, Pam thought, being very stern for Bill Weigand. He watched several in the cast nod; heard F. Lawrence Tilford say, with due attention to each syllable: “I am sure we all understand perfectly, Lieutenant.”

“After all,” John Hubbard added suddenly, “we’re all here, Lieutenant. Ellen’s the only one who wandered off.”

“Right,” Weigand said. “But I want you to understand, all of you we want you here for questions, when we get ready to ask them. And if you go, we want to know where, so we can—look after you.” He looked at them slowly. “I suppose,” he said, “that one of you is a murderer. We’ll look after that one, in time. The rest of you are, I suppose, innocent. But several of you haven’t, I think, told everything you should tell. Some have had a chance and haven’t come clean; some haven’t had a chance. And remember this—any one of you may, perhaps without realizing it, know some fact which is dangerous to the murderer—something the murderer would kill to keep us from knowing!” He paused, rather dramatically. Pam looked at him in some astonishment and then looked quickly at Jerry. Jerry looked amused, and nodded his head as if in approval. Now why was Bill—

Oh, of course, Pam thought suddenly. Because they’re all theatrical. He’s—he’s making it dramatic for them. Then she nodded, too, and caught Jerry’s eye across the space which separated them and smiled, with him.

“Is the situation perfectly clear?” Weigand went on, still to the cast and to the others of the company. “Nobody is to leave the theatre without permission. We are to know, as nearly as possible, where everybody is at a given moment and what everybody is doing.” He paused, looking from one to another. This time there were no comments, only here and there a nod of acceptance. “And,” Weigand said, “if I were you I would stay in groups of at least three. That’s all.”

He turned, and as he turned spoke Mullins’ name. Mullins came down the aisle saying, “O.K., Loot.” They met near Pam North who had dropped into a seat.

“I want you to find Miss Grady, Sergeant,” Weigand said. “Find her and bring her here. They say she isn’t at her apartment, but start there anyway. Perhaps her telephone is out of order; perhaps she’s just decided not to answer it.

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