The Diamond Brothers in...Four of Diamonds by Anthony Horowitz

Author:Anthony Horowitz [Horowitz, Anthony]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781406342505
Publisher: Walker Books
Published: 2012-07-04T16:00:00+00:00

AFTER DARK

“It was horrible,” Tim groaned. “It was horrible. Rory McPoodle … he was in pieces!”

“I don’t want to hear about it, Tim,” I said. Actually, it was too late. He’d already told me twenty times.

“Why would anyone do that?” he demanded. “What sort of person would do that?”

“I’m not sure,” I muttered. “How about a dangerous lunatic?”

Tim nodded. “You could be right,” he said.

We were sitting in our bedroom. We knew it was the bedroom that McDougal had prepared for us because it had Tim’s name on the door. There were seven bedrooms on the same floor, each one of them labelled for the arriving guests. This room was square, with a high ceiling and a window with a low balcony looking out over a sea that was already grey and choppy as the sun set and the evening drew in. There was a four-poster bed, a heavy tapestry and the sort of wallpaper that could give you bad dreams. There was also something else I’d noticed and it worried me.

“Look at this, Tim,” I said. I pointed at the bedside table. “There’s a telephone socket here – but no telephone. What does that tell you?”

“The last person who slept in this room stole the telephone?”

“Not exactly. I think the telephone has been taken to stop us making any calls.”

“Why would anyone do that?”

“To stop us reporting the death of Rory McDougal to the police.”

Tim considered. “You mean … someone knew we were coming…” he began.

“Exactly. And they also knew we’d be stuck here. At least until the boat came back.”

It was a nasty thought. I was beginning to have lots of nasty thoughts, and the worst one was this: someone had killed Rory McDougal, but had it happened before we arrived on the island? Or had he been killed by one of the people from the boat? As soon as we had arrived at the house, we had all split up. For at least ten minutes nobody had known where anybody else was, which meant that any one of us could have found Rory and killed him before the others arrived.

Along with Tim and myself, there were now six people on the island … six and several halves if you counted Rory. Eric Draper, Janet Rhodes, Sylvie Binns, Mark Tyler, Brenda Blake and Libby Goldman. Tim hadn’t seen any of them in ten years and knew hardly anything about them. Could one of them be a crazed killer? Could one of them have planned this whole thing?

I looked at my watch. It was ten to seven. We left the room and went back downstairs.

Eric Draper had called a meeting in the dining-room at seven o’clock. I don’t know who had put him in charge but I guessed he had decided himself.

“He was head boy at school,” Tim told me. “He was always telling everyone what to do. Even the teachers used to do what he said.”

“What was Rory McDougal like as a boy?”

“Well … he was young.”

“That’s very helpful, Tim.

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