The Vanishing Act by Jen Shieff

Author:Jen Shieff [Shieff, Jen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mary Egan Publishing
Published: 2018-03-13T18:30:00+00:00

George’s funeral involved a service at St Andrew’s attended by approximately thirty people, followed by a meagre procession to Purewa Cemetery, only five cars in addition to Allan’s following the hearse.

Allan assumed the people at the graveside were family of the doctor and his wife, and perhaps a couple of friends. Rita was there. Allan was surprised she was the only patient fond enough of the doctor to bother showing up. If the doctor was as well liked as Allan had been led to believe, where was everyone? It wasn’t as if the idea of a murder investigation had put people off. As far as the world knew, it had simply been a sudden death.

Nerily Fairclough arrived with Dr Featherston but stood apart from him in the church and at Purewa, weeping into a handkerchief.

There were two other men apart from Featherston, not together. Possibly one was Alistair Dunstan, the one in the light grey suit. The other one had driven Virginia Abercrombie, Mrs Morgan and the children to Purewa. He made a mental note that he would need to have a little chat with Mrs Morgan.

Virginia had on a broad-brimmed black hat with black netting covering her face, and a loosely draped black dress. Her red painted fingernails matched her red handbag perfectly. Her black shoes trimmed with red piping completed the immaculate picture of a stylish widow.

Allan, curious, went over to join Virginia, chatting to the man who had driven her to the cemetery, forcing her to introduce the man, who turned out to be George’s friend and accountant, Jim Beecham. She lowered her voice to tell Jim that Allan was the investigating officer.

Allan had noticed Jim standing beside a woman, probably his wife, through the service and now there she was at the graveside, eyes on Virginia.

Sure enough, Jim said, “Oh, and my wife, Janine, is just over there.”

As soon as George was in the ground, Allan noticed Rita going over to another grave and standing in front of it for several minutes, her head bowed. Miss Glennis Taylor, no doubt. Her precious Glenn.

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