Murder Plot by Keith McCarthy

Author:Keith McCarthy [McCarthy, Keith]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-02-07T00:00:00+00:00

Despite the moonlight, and despite my torch and Dad's lantern, I still seemed to stumble every few steps as we walked along the wide track between the allotments; when we turned off this to strike out across country between two allotments, the thin, grassy path was so uneven it was only a matter of time before I fell over.

“Bugger!”

Dad turned and held his lantern up. From its light I could see that I had squashed someone's lettuces. His only comment was, “Oh, dear.”

I picked myself up and brushed off my trousers. “We are we going?”

“Nearly there.” This was thrown over his shoulder as he and the warm light of the oil lamp moved off again.

By the time he stopped again, I was so disorientated, for all I knew I had crossed the county line and wandered into Kent. I was also starting to become cold and regretting that I did not have a pullover to put on. “This,” he announced, holding up his lamp, “Is Charlie Daniel's plot.” He sounded like a tour guide, one perhaps who was leading tourists around the murder black spots of Thornton Heath.

Having announced this in tones of some import, he beckoned me forward. His face was partially in shadow but even so he was clearly smug. Saying nothing, he indicated the spot where Charlie's runner beans had once stood proud, but where their corpses now lay scattered like the dead upon a battlefield. They were looking wilted and showed early signs of decay.

“You want us to dig here?”

“Yes.”

“Why?”

He got tired of holding the lantern high and lowered it as he explained, “Because the money was here.”

Ye gods. “Dad, first of all, I don’t believe that anything was dug up from here, and secondly, even if something was, by definition it won’t be here now.”

“Obviously not.”

“What's the point of digging here now, then?”

A shake of his head, a thing of despair. “Clues, of course.”

He put down the lantern and, grasping his spade in both hands, advanced onto the patch where runner beans had once roamed free.

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