STRANGE LITTLE GIRL: A DCI John Blizzard murder mystery by John Dean

Author:John Dean [Dean, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: THE BOOK FOLKS British crime thrillers and murder mystery publishers
Published: 2017-10-24T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter nineteen

By nine-thirty, Abbey Road Police Station had been taken over by the Regional Organised Crime Unit. Despite the escape of Ralph Cargill, there was still a sense of triumphalism and officers walked briskly along the corridors, a spring in their step, chests pushed out, the detectives safe in the knowledge that they had arrested key players in an international gun-running gang. Wondering if his negative reaction was because he actually felt jealous, John Blizzard retreated to his office, closing the door firmly behind him. Having been up all night, it was not long before he was asleep.

As he slumbered, Wendy Talbot was giving a press conference in the canteen, revealing to an excited media scrum that raids had also taken place in Leeds during which other members of the gang had been arrested, and that their counterparts in Moscow had moved in on an apartment block. There was, she announced dramatically, an armed siege taking place as she spoke. The media loved it. There was no mention of Ralph Cargill’s escape by Talbot but she knew it was only a matter of time before the journalists and camera crews heading back to the industrial estate after the briefing worked out that someone was missing: underwater search teams were already at work in the canal.

Blizzard jerked awake and tried to get on with some paperwork, but after trying to read the same document three times, he sighed, tossed it back onto the desk and sat, his lips pursed as he stared out of the rain-flecked window in the gloom of a Hafton winter’s morning. His reverie was interrupted by a knock on the door and in walked Arthur Ronald.

‘Not part of the celebrations?’ asked the superintendent.

‘Forgot my party hat, Arthur.’

‘Come on, John,’ said Ronald, the chair creaking as he lowered his bulk. ‘It’s a good result.’

‘Yeah, I know.’

‘So why the long face?’

‘Because I wanted to get Cargill into an interview room and they’ve let him get away.’

‘Perhaps he’s not yours to interview. Don’t look like that. Wendy is still adamant that Danny Galston was murdered as part of the gun-running and there’s plenty can see merit in the idea.’

‘She’s wrong.’ Before Blizzard could elaborate further, there was a knock on the door and in walked Colley. Ronald looked at the sergeant’s gashed features with concern.

‘Should you be here?’ he asked.

‘I’m fine, sir.’

‘Any ideas who attacked you?’ asked Ronald.

‘It was too dark to see but he was a big bugger, I’ll tell you that.’

‘And your informant?’

‘Not sure,’ said Colley. ‘I hope he got away but the guy who attacked me was a real psycho and I reckon he must have known Barry was going to tell me something.’

‘What’s this about something changing things?’

‘Not sure. Maybe there’s a link to the guy who did me. Anyway, I came here for something else, actually, and you are not going to like it. Wendy Talbot has just told the press conference that they are linking the death of Danny Galston to the gun-running.’

‘I’m sure she has,’ said Blizzard.

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