The Fourth Deadly Sin by Lawrence Sanders

Author:Lawrence Sanders
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery, Suspense, Thriller
ISBN: 9780399130625
Published: 1984-12-31T13:00:00+00:00

“And the luck of the devil,” he added.

“I hope.”

The doctor laughed politely.

“Does luck really have much to do with catching a criminal?”

“Sometimes,” he said, nodding.

“Usually it’s a matter of knocking on enough doors. But sometimes chance and accident take a hand, and you get a break you didn’t expect. The criminal can’t control luck, can he?”

“But doesn’t it work the other way, too? I mean, doesn’t luck sometimes favor the criminal?”

“Occasionally,” he agreed.

“But it would be a very stupid criminal who depended on it.

“The best laid schemes … ‘ and so on and so on.” He turned to Monica.

“Who said that?” he asked her, smiling.

“Shakespeare?” she ventured.

“Robert Bums,” he said.

“Shakespeare didn’t say everything - ” He turned to Diane Ellerbee.

“Now it’s your chance.

who wrote, “Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive!’?”

“That was Shakespeare,” she said.

“Sir Walter Scott,” he said, still smiling.

“Did you say you had something to tell me, doctor?”

“Oh, you’ll probably think it’s silly,” she said, “but it’s been bothering me, so I thought I’d tell you anyway. The first time you and Sergeant Boone came to see me, you asked a lot of questions, and I answered them to the best of my ability.

After you left, I tried to remember everything I had said, to make sure I hadn’t unintentionally led you astray.”

She paused.

“And?” he said.

“Well, it probably means nothing, but you asked if I had noticed any change in Simon over the last six months or year, and I said no. But then after thinking it over, I realized there had been a change . Perhaps it was so gradual that I really wasn’t aware of it.”

“But now you feel there was a change?” Delaney asked.

“Yes, I do. Thinking over this past year, I realize Simon had become-well, distant and preoccupied is the only way I can describe it. He had been very concerned about his patients, and I suppose at the time. I thought it was just overwork that was bothering him. But yes, there was a change in him. I don’t imagine it means anything, but it disturbed me that I hadn’t given you a strictly accurate answer, so I thought I better tell you.”

“I’m glad you did,” Delaney said gravely.

“Like you, I don’t know if it means anything or not, but every little bit helps.”

“Well!” Diane Ellerbee said, smiling brightly.

“Now I do feel better, getting that off my conscience.”

She drained her gimlet, set the glass aside, and rose. They stood up. She offered her hand to Monica, “Thank you so much for letting me barge in,” she said.

“You have a lovely, lovely home, I wish the two of you would come up to Brewster soon and see our place. It’s not at its best in winter but Simon and I worked so hard to make it something special, I’d like to have you see it. Could you do that?”

“We’d be delighted,” Monica said promptly.

“Thank you.”

“Let’s wait for a weekend when no blizzards are predicted,” Diane Ellerbee said, laughing.

“The first good Saturday-all right?”

“We don’t have a car,” Delaney said.

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