Diana's Altar by Barbara Cleverly

Author:Barbara Cleverly
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery / Crime Fiction
Publisher: Soho Press
Published: 2016-02-21T22:29:15+00:00

Joe broke off in alarm. “With Bacchus’s training . . . ?” In silent killing? “Oh, Aidan what have you done?” he muttered. He fought down a surge of nervous laughter at the picture of Aidan fleeing back down the dark lanes in his evening suit.

Pertinax was present on a further occasion at college dinner (24th). We exchanged cold nods across the table and he made no attempt to contact me. Excusable froideur, in the circs! I had committed two unforgivable social gaffes: I’d neglected to send him a bread-and-butter thank you note for his hospitality and left him with a dead dog on his hands.

So there you are! That’s how they catch their fish! Though I can’t imagine why P. would want an insignificant flounder like me gasping in his basket. Your suspicions are confirmed. I hope I’ve been of help. Now follows the truly interesting stuff! The stuff you ought to have told me to concentrate on.

THE SECOND PART of Aidan’s report, dated the previous week, was rather more what Joe expected of an agent-in-place. The writing was less dashing and the single sheet was formally addressed. At first glance it looked reassuringly dull and fact filled. Not an exclamation mark in sight. Yet what had Aidan just called it? The truly interesting stuff?

Intrigued, Joe began to read:

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