Nicola Upson - [Josephine Tey 01] by An Expert in Murder (v5.0) (pdf)

Author:An Expert in Murder (v5.0) (pdf) [Murder, An Expert in]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-11-30T23:57:08+00:00

crew work in both theatres anyway, so they’d be familiar with the layout and people would expect to see them there. But according to matey on stage door, there’s a lot of mingling among the actors as well. Aubrey employed both casts and they hang around together a lot, have a drink in each other’s dressing rooms – that sort of thing.’

Penrose thought about it. The play at Wyndham’s had run for around another fifteen minutes after the curtain fell on Richard of Bordeaux so, by the time the staff were leaving the New, the passage would have been at its busiest with audiences spilling out to go home or hanging around for autographs. Nobody would find it easy to get through those crowds, particularly actors waylaid by fans, but he had watched most of the Richard cast leave while he was waiting for Aubrey at the stage door, and they had not hung about. It would have been possible for them to get into Wyndham’s and up to this bridge, and so to the door of Aubrey’s office.

Whoever it was stood a chance of being seen through the glass on the walkway, but most people were either looking out for a famous face or walking head-down against the cold; it wasn’t much of a risk, compared with everything else. ‘God, it’s just hopeless,’ he said to Fallowfield. ‘The list is getting longer rather than shorter, and we can’t necessarily eliminate them from Elspeth’s murder, either. Her death occurred just before any of them would have been expected at the theatre last night. Lydia met Josephine and got back to the theatre in good time, so any of the people we’ve got here could feasibly have been at King’s Cross and not been missed.’

Fallowfield nodded. ‘Any of them could have passed through the scene dock and tampered with the whisky, and any of them could have come up here later on.’

‘But why do both, I wonder? If the whisky was in the decanter, from which only Aubrey was going to drink, he was already as good as dead. What would be the point of taking an extra chance to go to his office, assuming that the same person did both?’

‘To make sure he couldn’t get out and call for help, I suppose, Sir.’

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