Light Through Glass (Pollard & Toye Investigations Book 15) by Elizabeth Lemarchand

Author:Elizabeth Lemarchand [Lemarchand, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Sapere Books
Published: 2019-04-29T00:00:00+00:00

Nevinson, in a private room at Minstow General Hospital, was positively enshrined in flowers, baskets of fruit, chocolates, Get Well cards, magazines and other tributes from well-wishers. His right shoulder and forearm and his neck were bandaged and plaster patches adorned his right cheek, but he looked surprisingly well and grinned broadly at Pollard.

‘God!’ Pollard remarked. ‘It might be a film star’s bedroom. A near shave though, old man. ’Oodunnit?’

‘’Oodun Paterson, possibly?’ Nevinson queried. ‘Up to you now, anyway. The Super says I’m good for at least a month’s leave.’

‘I had just to look in and see how much of you was left but I must push off. Lock’s having supper with us at the G and D and we’re planning the next step. If I don’t let Toye drive me up to see Auntie Grizel he’ll probably resign from the Force. You were going yesterday morning, weren’t you?’

‘Yeah. I hope you’ll go. It seems to me the only hopeful line at the moment. And could it possibly be that somebody didn’t want me to make the trip?’

‘If not, why not!’ Pollard replied as he got up. ‘Thereby might hang a tale. Love to Virginia and my godson. How is she?’

‘OK… Biddy Appleton has the situation in hand and isn’t allowing her to be anything else. Decorators have been brought in already to repair the damage.’

Pollard gave him the V-sign as he departed and called in at the Ward Sister’s office.

‘Inspector Nevinson’ll be scarred a bit,’ she told him, ‘but it’s wonderful what plastic surgery can do these days. My word, what an escape he had! He might so easily have lost his sight. Shameful of whoever did it, and daft, too. I mean if you kill one policeman another pops up right away to carry on, so it doesn’t get you anywhere.’

Pollard did not stay to debate this robust point of view but set off on foot for the George and Dragon, meditating as he walked. He was inclined to think that there was a connection between the letter bomb and the Paterson case, and that for some reason it had been vitally important for someone to incapacitate Nevinson. The sender must have thought that Nevinson either unconsciously possessed the clue to the identity of Paterson’s murderer, or that he would discover it by visiting Grizel Ross. But any normally sane adult would realise that the police would quickly find a substitute for Nevinson… Perhaps delay would enable evidence to be destroyed…

At this point he arrived at the George and Dragon, and found Toye immersed in the contents of the file.

After an hour they agreed that Nevinson’s handling of the case couldn’t be faulted.

‘The lot,’ Pollard commented, stretching and clasping his hands behind his head. ‘Genealogical table, timetables, map, statements checked and counterchecked. Unless either Forbes or Grimshaw or Mrs Brothers is an accomplished liar or somebody has been heavily bribed — the Bulls, for instance — it looks as though A. N. Other must be involved. And who

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