MURDER IN A WELSH TOWN: A cozy mystery about a dramatic crime (The Havard and Lambert mysteries Book 4) by Pippa McCathie

Author:Pippa McCathie [McCathie, Pippa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: THE BOOK FOLKS bestselling crime fiction publishers
Published: 2020-11-15T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15

First thing the following morning, Matt got a message from Aidan Rogers asking to speak to him about what he’d turned up on the iPad found in Ivor Gladwin’s desk. Matt went into the station before going to the incident room. Aidan had also had a trawl through the phone that had fallen under the floorboards of the stage and discovered that it had indeed belonged to Gladwin. Matt had great hopes of both.

Aidan, his round face as keen as usual, sat down in a chair beside Matt. The chair creaked in protest. “I must lose weight,” he muttered. Matt was tactful enough not to comment.

“I haven’t finished yet, but I thought it’d be useful for you to go through what I’ve retrieved so far,” Aidan told him. “I’ve made notes in hard copy. I thought it’d be easier to show you what I’ve got that way.”

“You know me too well,” Matt said, smiling.

“I went through all the information we have about those involved so that I had the background information fixed in my mind. When I went through what I’d retrieved, it made what I found easier to understand,” Aidan told him. “Some of his comments I could understand pretty easily, some I couldn’t. He put all this in a notes section of his iPad and he was certainly interested in his pals, if you can call them that. I’ve managed to salvage a tidy bit of data and I’ve charted it according to the person who is, or could be, the target of his notes. I tell you, sir, if I thought someone was making notes like this about me, I’d be tamping, I would. Maybe he deserved what he got–”

Matt interrupted him. “It seems he wasn’t a likeable person, but that’s no reason to bump him off.”

“Of course not, sorry, sir,” Aidan said apologetically. “What he’s done is made a list of names, not in full, just initials, sometimes with a description, sort of, like this one, he calls her Marilyn Monroe.”

“I think that could be Peony Smith, she plays one of the female leads in the pantomime and she looks just like her.”

“That follows. It’s all rather odd, like. I can’t imagine why he did it, maybe just for his own satisfaction, you know, to make him feel he was in control of them. It comes across as some sort of game. Anyway, the notes he’s made about Peony Smith are, tasty bit of totty, young and juicy, wouldn’t mind getting into her knickers.” Aidan’s round cheeks went a little pink as he read out the description. “This is followed by Idiot Boy LB fancies her, I’ll soon cut him out.”

Matt frowned. “That’d be Lewys Bennion, he’s of an age with Peony and, according to Fabia, is inclined to be a bit naïve, but I certainly wouldn’t call him an idiot. He’s doing an MSc in computer sciences at Pontypridd campus.”

“Good on him,” Aidan said. This was right up his street.

“This one here,” Aidan went on, “male I think, he calls him The Ex-Con.

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