Mrs Pargeter 1 - A Nice Class of Corpse by Simon Brett

Author:Simon Brett
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2011-07-21T04:00:00+00:00

She feigned ignorance. She wasn't going to volunteer the word 'murder'. 'I'm sorry, Detective-Sergeant. I don't understand what you mean.'

'Never mind.' He tried another tack. 'Did you know that Mrs Mendlingham kept a sort of notebook?'

'I had seen her writing in one, yes,' was her honest reply.

Detective-Sergeant Mitford nodded. 'It's a strange book. She recorded all kinds of snippets of information and feelings. Haven't read it all through yet, obviously, just glanced at it, but there is one interesting entry . . .'

'Oh?'

'She refers to having seen something "on the landing", something that upset her . . . Have you any idea what that might be, Mrs Pargeter?'

'The only thing I can possibly think of,' she replied truthfully, 'is that it might be something to do with the death of Mrs Selsby.'

'Oh?'

'Well, I don't know whether you've heard what happened, but Mrs Selsby was killed falling down the stairs from the first-floor landing. Since Mrs Mendlingham's bedroom is on that landing, it's possible that she saw Mrs Selsby fall. And that the memory of that – or perhaps the thought that she should have been able to prevent it – is what was upsetting her.'

Detective-Sergeant Mitford nodded with satisfaction. 'Thank you, Mrs Pargeter. You've been most helpful. And may I say that, with regard to the reference to what Mrs Mendlingham saw on the landing, we have come to exactly the same conclusion as you have.'

Well, perhaps not exactly the same, thought Mrs Pargeter.

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