Murder Isn't Easy by Richard Hull

Author:Richard Hull [Hull, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Ipso Books
Published: 2018-03-28T22:00:00+00:00

Having put down one incident, I might as well put down another. The idea seems to sort of grow on one.

It was like this. I found some people who were going to start a new canning factory. Whether it will ever come to anything, I don’t know, but I believe in keeping in with everyone, and all we stand to lose is some work. Well, better to work than to sit idle. Not that I would make anyone put anything aside for these canning people, but just when there isn’t anything else to do, it seemed to me a good plan to get some rough ideas together. Good practice anyhow.

So accordingly I asked the other two to help me. At least it was not really helping me. All I wanted them to do was their normal side of the show taken at their leisure, just in case it was wanted, for the benefit of the agency. So far as Barraclough was concerned, it was a bit more than his normal work, and I should not have been surprised if he had kicked a bit, but he didn’t. In fact he went for it all out rather more than I thought was strictly necessary. I really believe that chap likes work.

But when it came to Nicholas, it was quite another pair of shoes. He raised the most awful points of etiquette about not working for clients who didn’t exist and being paid for work if we did it, even if it was not used—stuff which was all true enough in theory but which has never worked in practice and never will. Moreover, Nicholas didn’t really believe a word of it himself. He only trotted it out when it suited his book, and chucked it overboard when it didn’t. But then that was his line about plenty of things.

However, I was not going to be stopped by a little thing like that, especially as Thomas was quite keen on it. Thomas likes drawing, or rather he likes drawing what he likes. I mean he enjoys making pretty pictures, especially if he can use colour, lots of colour, but he gets a bit bored with endless small sketches, and, above all, with lettering. Well, it is dull, I quite see, and Nicholas will make it so clear that anything Thomas produces is to be regarded as just the decoration to emphasize the beauty of Nicholas’s copy. Well, naturally Thomas gets a bit fed up. Who wouldn’t?

The result of it was that he was all for this canning stunt. He could let himself go, and when I told him he could do what he liked so long as he didn’t tell Nicholas, he was doubly pleased. No tiresome supervision, you see. He said at once that he could find time when Mr. Latimer was out of the office, which we both knew was not difficult, Nicholas being more absent than present.

I must say I liked the stuff he produced—good bold designs and plenty of colour.

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