Murder at the Museum by Lena Jones

Author:Lena Jones [Lena Jones ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2018-12-09T16:00:00+00:00

The West End Donor Centre on Margaret Street is the biggest blood donation clinic in all of London. I take a bus, which is empty – bar a drunk man right at the back, who mumbles to himself the whole way and ignores me, thank goodness, and a stressed-looking mother clutching a whimpering baby. I hop off at the closest stop to Margaret Street. The donor centre looks very closed when I get there. However, there’s a light shining out from one small window, so I knock gently on the pane. A moment later, a uniformed nurse appears at the front door.

‘We’re closed,’ she says.

‘Yes, but … I have an appointment.’

She narrows her eyes. ‘What is the name?’

‘Oddlow. Agatha Oddlow.’

She consults a sheet and shakes her head.

‘Felicity Lemon?’ I try.

She nods. ‘Come in.’

I follow her into the clinic. She leads me down empty white corridors and through double doors into identical empty white corridors. There’s something disconcerting about a hospital environment out of hours. Too many thrillers have been set in just such a place, where an evil doctor attempts some illegal operation to incapacitate the hero or heroine.

What if I’ve got it all wrong? What if I’ve walked straight into a trap?

‘Where are we going?’ I ask the nurse’s back as she strides ahead, but she doesn’t respond. Too late now …

Finally, we reach the end of a corridor, and the nurse raps on the door of a doctor’s office. She opens the door and nods for me to enter. My palms are sweating by the time I step inside, unsure whether I’ll encounter a friend or a foe.

And then I’m looking straight into the smiling face of Professor D’Oliveira.

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