The Name on the Bullet by John Dean

Author:John Dean [Dean, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-04-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter seventeen

Blizzard had not been long back in his office at Abbey Road Police Station, and had just sat down at his desk with a mug of tea, when Chris Ramsey walked in.

‘I hear you’ve been playing nice,’ he said as Blizzard gestured for him to take a seat. ‘The atmosphere round this place is electric. Is it right that you’ve nicked a couple of Secret Squirrels?’

‘Sure is.’

‘Do we know why they were following you?’ asked Ramsey.

‘We’re assuming that it must be something to do with Alan’s death.’ Blizzard shook his head. ‘The more this case unfolds, the less I think I know about the man. First Nathaniel Callaghan and now MI5. Why would either of them be interested in a sergeant from Hafton?’

‘No idea. Are the MI5 guys not saying anything?’

‘They’re sticking to the name and number routine,’ said Blizzard. ‘Not sure how long they’ll keep it up, though. I think that they assumed that they would be released immediately once we found out who they were but the gravity of their situation may be starting to dawn on them. Arthur’s been laying it on thick.’

‘How long can we hold them, do you think?’

‘Arthur’s coming under all sorts of heavy pressure from their bosses to let them go, mind, but the chief is behind him for the moment so we’re keeping them in until we get some answers. Even if we do let them go today, it won’t be until much later. Wendy Talbot and Matt Riley want to be in on the questioning and are heading back north. Suffice to say that Wendy is not impressed – they weren’t that far from London when this blew up.’

‘I imagine she’s furious,’ said Ramsey. ‘And I certainly wouldn’t want to cross her. How did it go with Nathaniel? Did he agree that it’s a fair cop and hand himself in?’

‘What do you think? It was not the charming version of the man that we met this morning. I think we may have got him rattled.’ Blizzard noted the piece of paper in the detective inspector’s hand. ‘What’s that?’

‘Something that may rattle him some more,’ said Ramsey. He placed the document on the desk with a look of intense satisfaction on his face. ‘In fact, it could be the first piece of evidence linking him with Alan’s murder.’

‘Really?’ Blizzard picked up the document. It was a printout out of a DVLA record. He ran his eye down the page. ‘Who’s this Gary Race then?’

‘Well might you ask,’ said Ramsey. ‘We got onto him after a delivery driver came into the front office and said he’d heard that we were appealing for information about Alan’s murder. He said that he saw a car turn off towards the wasteland behind the new Tesco at about 8.30 on the night Alan vanished.’

‘That’s not long after he left the McDonald’s,’ said Blizzard.

‘Exactly, and what makes it even more interesting is that the van driver jotted down the vehicle’s registration number, which confirms that it’s from Leeds.

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