The Dying of the Light by Michael Dibdin

Author:Michael Dibdin [Dibdin, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Women Detectives, Detective and Mystery Stories, England, Mystery & Detective, General, Hotels - England - Fiction, Women detectives - England - Fiction, Women Sleuths, England - Fiction, Fiction, Hotels
ISBN: 9780679753100
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1995-01-17T00:00:00+00:00

Jarvis flashed a regulation smile.

‘Mr Anderson? I believe you’re expecting me.’

The man eyed him blearily.

‘You may also believe that the earth is flat, for all I know. It doesn’t follow that such is in fact the case.’

Jarvis felt his guts clench as though in the first stirrings of indigestion. Just when everything had seemed to be going so well. He unbuttoned the dark blue overcoat he’d got half-price in the sales, revealing an acrylic-rich suit from which he produced his warrant card.

‘Detective-Inspector Stanley Jarvis, sir. I am calling with regard to Mrs Dorothy Hilda Davenport, nee Cooke, deceased.’

The man squinted at the warrant card.

‘You don’t look anything like the person in this photograph.’

‘I was given to understand that you had been informed of and had agreed to this visit,’ snarled Jarvis, with whom the quantity of weight gained and hair lost over the past few years was a sore point. ‘One of my associates was in telephonic communication with a certain...’

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