Gold From Gemini by Jonathan Gash

Author:Jonathan Gash [Gash, Jonathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Traditional British, General, Mystery & Detective, Fiction
ISBN: 9780140105292
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Published: 1988-05-14T23:00:00+00:00

Janie took it up the lane to our post office as soon as it opened in the morning. By then we'd copied the lot, word for word.

For the rest of the day I let my mind rest. I suppose Janie had slipped me a Micky on Doc Lancaster's orders. Or maybe it was her brew, the western world's most soporific stimulant. Anyway, I dozed a lot.

By evening I was alert enough to feel certain. Edward Rink was a maniac. He'd killed Dandy Jack. He was determined that, if old Bexon had left a clue about a Roman find, nobody else would get it but him. But what the hell did a beauty like Nichole see in a nerk like that? Doesn't it make you wonder, all those old sayings about women and rich men? Rink must have burgled the Castle to get Bexon's coins from the display case. To check they were genuine Romans, not crummy electrotypes people are always trying to sell you these days. It was as simple as that. A cool swine. We're never ashamed of our crimes, not really, but being thought inadequate in some way's the absolute humiliation. Aren't people a funny lot?

About eight o'clock our vicar, Reverend Woking, came to ask if I'd sufficiently recovered from my mythical 'flu to sing in the choir for Dandy Jack. The service would be at ten in a couple of days. They would do the Nelson Mass, though he's not supposed to have papist leanings. I said okay.

'I don't think Lovejoy will be well enough, Reverend,' Janie said. 'He's had an, er, accident in his workshop.'

'Yes, I will,' I said. 'I'm fine.'

'Good, good!' He hesitated, wondering whether to chance his arm and preach to us about Janie's status, but wisely decided to cut his losses.

'Before you start,' I put in as Janie prepared to go for me, 'you've never heard our tenors. Without me the Sanctus is doomed.' We bickered this way all evening.

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