Power and Control by Robert H Wilde

Author:Robert H Wilde [Wilde, Robert H]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-19T22:00:00+00:00

The receptionist looked up to find two men walking towards her. She didn’t recognise them so put on her smartest expression. “Hello, welcome to New Hope Church, how may I help you?”

“Hello,” one man began, “I’m DC Will Green and I’m here to execute a warrant.”

“Good to see you sir. What does that mean?”

“Oh, I’m investigating the death of Joshua Cribb.”

“Such a tragic loss,” the receptionist said with the voice of a robot, “we all miss him a great deal. He brought us in chocolates all the time.”

“I wish my boss did that. Anyway, we know he has an office in the building and as part of our investigation we’d like to look around it.”

“Oh, that’s fine, anything to help. What does the warrant part mean?”

“Well, it just smooths things over,” it means you can’t say no don’t it, Green thought.

“Right, well, I will show you two through, follow me,” she stood and did her best walk through the building. They went down a wide corridor painted cream and came to a dark brown wooden door, on which was a bible quote carved into a wooden plaque, as well as the painted name Elder Joshua Cribb.

A key was produced, the door opened, and Green and his companion went inside.

“Shall I come back in five minutes?” the secretary asked.

“No, these things take a lot longer, we wouldn’t mind some coffee though?”

“Perfect.”

With her gone, the two men looked around the room.

It was more like a library than an office. A good two thirds of the walls were covered in bookcases, and they were filled. Books, magazines published by different church groups, photographs of Cribb with… well they varied between Cribb seemingly being treated like royalty by people clearly abroad, and the family the deceased man had left behind. In fact,

“this man travelled more than a ten quid note”, Green said, pausing to muse “spose that doesn’t travel round the world much though does it?”

“Let’s focus,” his companion said, moving round to look at the desk. Big and heavy, it had two screens on the top and a desktop computer tucked away underneath. “I wonder if that holds the answers?”

Green tilted his head to look at a cross. “Reckon that’s ivory?”

“I hope not.”

“Oh yeah, me too, I love Dumbo. Good thing we don’t have more flying elephants though.”

“Focus, Green.”

“Oh, right. Well, professional opinion is we’ll need someone tearing this place apart and it won’t be quick, there’s a million books and knick-knacks and no sign of this missing laptop.”

“Agreed. Completely agreed.”

The door swung open at speed, so hard it bounced back into the man surging through. “You can’t come in here!”

“Are you Edward Quince?” Green asked.

“Yes, and who are you?”

“I’m DC Green, and I’m…”

“Listen to me Constable, you do not barge into people’s offices and start going through their material and …”

“I have a warrant.”

“What?”

“I got one to make sure.”

“In that case I demand to speak to your superior.”

The other man in the room stepped forward. “I’m Detective Chief Inspector Wick of the Morthern Major Crimes Unit, how may I assist you?”

“D…C… I…”

“Yes Quince, yes.

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