Death Never Strikes Twice by John Glasby

Author:John Glasby [Glasby, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Endeavour Media
Published: 2019-04-24T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

I was standing by the side of my bed, staring out of the window at nothing. Even if I’d been staring at anything, there was nothing in the view of any interest. The same old street with the same early morning traffic moving in long queues along it.

It was going to be another hot Friday with only the dust moving as if it had anywhere to go. I was still getting the occasional twinge in my head where I’d been coshed and was debating whether to take a couple of painkillers with my first coffee of the day when the phone on the bedside table rang.

The sound jarred through my aching skull like a drop-hammer. I couldn’t figure out who would be calling me on that line. Clients usually called my office. I picked up the receiver and held it gently to my right ear.

‘Is that you, Merak?’ said the voice. It was Charles Jensen’s dulcet tones.

Somehow, I snapped myself alert.

‘Yes, Mister Jensen.’

‘I’m calling you on your own phone rather than your office number,’ he said. ‘It’s much safer this way and I wanted to get you before you left. Janine has just announced she’s going to see her sister this evening. She says she’ll be away for a couple of days.’

‘So you want me to tail her?’

‘Of course. I’m hoping you’ll get me some results. You know where I live. I want you to be there by seven this evening. She’ll be driving the blue Chrysler.’

I jerked as if someone had hit me in the face. A blue Chrysler! Coincidence?

Somehow, I didn’t think so. Sure there were plenty of blue Chryslers cruising the streets of L.A. And maybe I was reading more into this than there really was. The description I’d been given of the dame who’d warned me off the case certainly didn’t fit Janine.

‘You still there, Merak?’

‘What —? Sure, I’m here,’ I said.

‘You know exactly what you have to do. Whatever happens, don’t lose her. She’s been acting oddly of late. She may be suspicious and try to throw you off the trail if she suspects anyone might be following her.’

‘I’ll be careful. This isn’t the first case like this I’ve worked on.’

‘No, I’m sure it isn’t. But there’s too much at stake here for any slip-up and —’

The phone went dead before he finished what he meant to say. I guessed that Janine had probably walked into the room unexpectedly and he had to cut the message short.

I went into the small kitchenette, put the kettle on to boil, spooned coffee into a cup and waited for the kettle to start steaming.

Then I made the coffee and went back into the bedroom to drink it.

There were so many things going through my mind. I felt as though I was on some out-of-control carousel, spinning like a top and unable to get off. Somewhere, there was an answer that made some kind of sense. At the moment, however, I couldn’t find it.

Had it been Janine who

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