The Lost Spy (Slim Moran Mysteries) by Kate Moira Ryan

Author:Kate Moira Ryan [Ryan, Kate Moira]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Press
Published: 2017-10-17T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Paris, 1949

When they arrived in Paris the next morning, Slim immediately went up to her office to call Miss Chapman and tell her she had news. They arranged to meet at her office on Baker Street in two days.

She walked down to the bar and found Daniel shoveling food into his mouth while Remy mopped the floors, humming to herself. He acknowledged her with a curt nod and continued eating. Slim took the chair next to him and asked Remy to fetch her a café au lait.

“When did you get in?” she asked, resisting the urge to stroke his arm.

“Françoise told me that you went to Natzweiler. Did you find out anything?” he asked, ignoring her question.

As she was recounting the details to him, Daniel pushed his plate away and reached for a napkin that had fallen to the floor. He picked it up and slapped in on the table. “I heard what Amelie did.”

“She’s not well,” Slim said, not wanting to get into an argument with him. She began to sip from the steaming bowl of hot coffee and milk that Remy had brought her.

“Françoise told me that Amelie chased you with a Sten gun. I hope you didn’t share a sleeping car with her to Natzweiler.” When she didn’t answer, he murmured, “You’re lucky she didn’t kill you. You are far too trusting, Slim. You’ve got to be more careful if you’re going to do this sort of work.”

“Daniel, it’s the same work I did for the Red Cross,” Slim countered.

“It’s not, Slim. It’s completely different. When you worked for the Red Cross, you tracked down lost family members.” Slim started to interrupt him. “Let me finish. With this, it’s different; you’re entering into a world of criminals. You’re not just finding out if Tante Sarah and Oncle Max perished in the gas chambers.”

“Daniel, the case is solved, or at least I think it is. The only real proof Miss Chapman had that Marie Claire was alive were those messages she received over the phone, and it turned out to be Amelie sending them. Now I have this box of Marie Claire’s belongings. If Françoise can identify the shoe, then it’s finished.”

“So you think Marie Claire was burned alive?”

“That’s what the stoker says.”

“Did anyone see the plume of smoke go up?”

“The plume of smoke? What are you talking about?”

“When a body is placed into an oven, the fire consumes it, and then a giant puff of smoke comes out of the chimney of the crematorium.”

“The stoker told me he was in the infirmary when she was thrown into the oven. You seem to know a lot of the workings of a crematorium.” Could it be possible that Daniel did not work in the munitions factory in Auschwitz like he’d told her and had worked as a Sonderkommando?

She was about to ask him this when he said, “Not that you asked, but we didn’t find Barbie for Wiesenthal.”

“No?” Slim would have to revisit the subject of what Daniel did to stay alive at Auschwitz another time.

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