THE COMPLETE MONICA NOBLE MURDER MYSTERIES three utterly gripping cozy mysteries box set by Faith Martin

Author:Faith Martin [MARTIN, FAITH]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Joffe Books crime, thriller, mystery and suspense box sets
Published: 2021-06-15T22:00:00+00:00

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Flora led her superior officer around the big tea tent to the rear. Here Jason looked over the scene with a jaundiced eye.

The tent had been set up only about a foot from the perimeter fence. Lying in the narrow alleyway it created, face down, was the figure of a man. He looked pathetic. He was wearing a suit that was now hopelessly crushed and sweat-stained. The back of his head, showing already thinning hair, had been caved in by what looked like a single, massive blow. There was surprisingly little blood. For a few moments, Jason simply stood and stared down at him.

‘I’ve checked for a pulse, sir,’ Flora said, unable to stand the silence. All her previous excitement had suddenly evaporated with her discovery of yet another body. Perhaps it was because she had found him personally. Perhaps because she too thought there was something rather pathetic about the dead man. So unbearably sad. In some ways, she felt, it was worse than seeing the vicar dead, although, if asked, she wouldn’t have been able to say why exactly.

But Jason knew why. Whereas the vicar’s death had caused much shock and dismay amongst his friends and community, he already sensed that nobody much would mourn for this man. The vicar had at least died amongst his friends. This man had died alone.

Jason sighed. ‘Go and get John Clarke. Then the SOCO team,’ he said flatly to Flora. They were certainly going to be busy today. He’d just known this was going to be a bugger of a case. He’d just known it.

A green-faced constable, whom Flora had commandeered to stand guard while she fetched Jason, hastily looked away from the sight of the body as Flora brushed past him.

Jason bent down gingerly and peered into the profile of the dead man. His had been a nondescript sort of face — neither old nor young. Not handsome, but not ugly. The sort you wouldn’t look at twice, in fact. And yet it was looking more and more likely that this anonymous man had indeed been responsible for that fantastic capsule of death, and had thus started off this whole chain of tragic events.

But if this murdered scientist was the catalyst for all this death and mayhem, what on earth had gone wrong? Why had he wanted James Davies dead? Had he wanted James Davies dead? Obviously, something, somewhere, was seriously amiss here, or else why would a possible killer now also be lying dead? So there were two killers? Had they, in fact, formed a partnership? It was unusual, he knew, for two people to collaborate to kill, but it was not unheard of.

Jason backtracked his thoughts a little and rose stiffly to his feet.

Taking it for granted that Trenning was the maker of the capsule — and that, he felt sure, was now a fairly safe bet — was it possible that he’d constructed it for someone else, and that another party had stolen it for

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