The King of Diamonds by Simon Tolkien

Author:Simon Tolkien
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Inspector Trave and Detective Clayton
Publisher: Harper Collins, Inc.
Published: 2012-03-01T06:00:00+00:00

After this episode Clayton started going over to Trave’s house a lot more in the evenings after work. But it didn’t help. Trave was depressed and felt as impotent as Clayton. And then Christmas came and the new year, and John Bircher fell off the top of a multi-storey car park and broke his head into three different pieces on the concrete down below.

‘Perhaps he jumped,’ said Clayton without conviction. ‘That’s what Macrae says.’

‘What? Felt sorry for his sins, couldn’t stand to live with himself any more?’ asked Trave with a hollow laugh. ‘I don’t think so. Bircher was as black-hearted as they come: look at his rap sheet. No, someone got worried because he knew too much – arranged to meet him and then gave him the heave-ho.’

‘It wouldn’t be that easy. Bircher was a big man, you know.’

‘Maybe whoever did it had a gun.’

‘Like Claes, you mean?’

‘Maybe. But you’ll never prove it.’

They were sitting on either side of the old dining table in Trave’s living room, each nursing a glass of neat whisky. Trave sighed and relapsed back into his own thoughts; and then, as if coming to a decision, he got up and went over to an open-top bureau in the corner of the room and brought back a thick file crammed with well-thumbed, typed papers. There was a label on the front: regina versus david john swain, central criminal court, 1958.

Trave dropped the file on the table in front of Clayton and leant down over him, rapidly turning the pages until he got to one towards the end headed evidence of jacob mendel.

‘Here, read this,’ said Trave. ‘And then we’ll talk.’ And Clayton began to read:

DEFENCE COUNSEL, MR RELTON: You are the younger brother of the victim in this case, Ethan Mendel?

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