GBH by Ted Lewis

Author:Ted Lewis [Lewis, Ted]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 978-1-61695-551-9
Publisher: Soho Press
Published: 2015-04-20T16:00:00+00:00

THE SMOKE

“I’VE JUST HEARD,” MICKEY said, sitting down. “So that’s where she went.”

“That’s where she went,” I said.

“A bit close to home, wasn’t it?”

“In more ways than one,” I said.

“I mean, they couldn’t be much nearer home if they tried.”

“You’re right about that,” I said.

“Parsons’ll be happy.”

“That’s what I thought.”

Mickey drummed on the table with his fingers.

“I’m surprised at Ray,” he said. “Involving himself with a slag and then knocking her off like this. I mean he could have told her to stay put and let us do the job when we went round to see her. I mean, if he’d already gone, what could she tell us: that he’d already gone?”

“Perhaps she could have told us all sorts of things he didn’t want us to know.”

“Stupid,” Mickey said.

“You haven’t seen the photographs?”

“No.”

I pushed the envelope across the desk towards him. He took the photographs out and leafed through them, shaking his head.

“Stupid,” he said. “Crude. Not the Ray we all knew and loved. Not his style at all.”

“No,” I said.

Mickey slung the photographs on the desk.

“Stupid,” he said again.

“How do you reckon it?” I asked him.

“Well, it’s obvious, isn’t it? She calls Ray to say we’re coming over. He tells her to get out of it and join him in Amsterdam. When she gets there, he knocks her off, or has her knocked off, because of things she may know that we don’t, and also seeing as how he’s decided that with the kind of money he’s got stacked up he can in future do better than the Glendas of this world.”

“They’d been together eighteen months. Like we said, it could have been love.”

Mickey shrugged. “Maybe she did it a new way that he’d never come across before. In any case, all good things come to an end, in time.”

“There’s certainly a lot of truth in that, Mickey,” I said.

“So what you want me to do?” he asked.

I shook my head. “At the moment, nothing. James is coming round shortly. I’ll send for you after he’s gone, if I need you.”

He stood up, and looked at the top photograph. “Now if I’d been doing a job like that …”

I nodded. “I know. They wouldn’t even have had to change the sheets.”

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