MURDER OF A GENTLEMAN: Gripping fiction by a great storyteller (The Havard and Lambert mysteries Book 5) by McCathie Pippa

Author:McCathie, Pippa
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Book Folks - bestselling British crime fiction publisher
Published: 2022-09-18T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Once again, Dilys was standing at her desk, the phone receiver clasped to her ear, sounding exasperated. “You’ll just have to tell him that the chief inspector is busy. He can’t just pitch up and expect to be treated like a– like bloody royalty.” When she saw Matt she said, “Hang on, Karim,” and put her hand over the receiver. “It’s Karim Singh on reception, sir. They’ve got that Stephen Lowe down there demanding to see you, one of those ‘do you realise who I am?’ types, looks like. He says he’s going to sit there until you agree to speak to him.”

“I was going to have to interview him, anyway, so now is as good a time as any. Tell Karim to say I’ll be there in a minute, then I’ll give it twenty minutes or so before going down. Let him wait a bit.”

Dilys grinned and turned back to the phone. “The chief inspector will be down in a bit. Let him cool his heels,” she said.

“Ask them to put him in one of the interview rooms, number three preferably, it’s gloomier than the rest, it’ll give him a taste of reality,” Matt said. “You’d better come too, Dilys, and can you get me a transcript of that interview with Craig Evans? The part where he mentions Stephen Lowe and Geraint having a row.”

“Will do, sir.”

“But before you do that,” Matt said, “did you manage to calm things down at Carreg Llwyd House?”

“Just about. Cassie is one angry woman. I swear I could see steam coming out of her ears!”

“When it comes to the paparazzi, I’m with her all the way.”

Dilys gave a little nod, she knew the history and sympathised with her boss. “Anyway,” she said, “I managed to calm her down, and I do feel sorry for her, but I pointed out that hitting out like that wasn’t going to solve any problems. The bloke she thumped isn’t going to press charges, not since I told him he was trespassing and could be prosecuted. I gave the crowd of them a little pep talk, you know, have sympathy for the family – Cassie, that is – and keep their distance. I hope it works.”

“And the chief says we can deploy a few more up at the house, so that should help.”

“Good. Well done, sir,” Dilys said, giving him a cheeky grin.

Matt responded with a slightly grim smile but didn’t comment.

“Before we go down to talk to this bloke, does he feature in the autobiography at all?”

“Not significantly. He is mentioned… what was it Geraint called him? A minor director of dubious talents. And he mentions having to sack him at one time because he was touching up the female members of the cast and they were complaining. That comes across as something Geraint Denbigh thoroughly disapproved of.”

“Good, that’ll do for now.”

* * *

Half an hour later he and Dilys made their way down to an interview room on the ground floor. It wasn’t as bleak as the interrogation rooms, but it certainly wasn’t homely.

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