Murder in Langley Woods by Betty Rowlands

Author:Betty Rowlands [Rowlands, Betty]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781786817792
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2019-02-11T08:00:00+00:00

The minute he set foot in the newsroom, Bruce Ingram was aware of an atmosphere of suppressed excitement which meant one thing: a big story was about to break.

‘What’s going on?’ he asked.

‘Word’s just come in from the nick,’ said Alec Trimble, one of the other reporters. ‘The two scrap-metal dealers in the freezer case have been released without charge.’

‘No kidding! Any details?’

‘Not yet. You were at the earlier briefings … how would you say the inquiry’s been going?’

‘DCI Holloway was playing it close to his chest as usual, but it’s pretty clear he was having a hard time building up a case against those two. He was granted one extension … maybe there wasn’t enough evidence to justify another. I’ll bet he’s sick as a dog!’ Bruce rubbed his hands in glee at the thought, remembering his own short career in the police and the ambitious detective’s seeming delight in humiliating his juniors.

‘So where does he go from here, I wonder?’ said Alec.

Bruce frowned. ‘Dunno. Carry on with the house-to-house in the hope of tracing the girl’s movements, I suppose.’

‘I wonder if the police are any nearer finding the bloke she ran off with. If he had nothing to hide, you’d think he’d have come forward by now.’ Alec toyed absent-mindedly with a paperweight on Bruce’s desk. ‘Y’know,’ he went on thoughtfully, ‘he could be the killer … I’ve always had my doubts about him.’

‘Hells’ teeth!’ Bruce jumped to his feet.

‘Now what?’

‘Here!’ Bruce slammed his cassette recorder down in front of a startled trainee journalist who was studying a page mock-up on an adjacent desk. ‘You can type, can’t you? Transcribe that interview for me. Then have a go at writing the story. I’ll look it over when I get back.’ He grabbed his jacket from a nearby peg and made for the door. ‘If the boss asks for me,’ he said to Alec over his shoulder, ‘tell her I’m on my way to the Golden Bell at Carston and I’ll call in later.’

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