Three Monkeys: A DCI Jack Callum Mystery by Len Maynard

Author:Len Maynard [Maynard, Len]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sharpe Books
Published: 2020-07-21T18:30:00+00:00

Jack glanced up as Myra walked into the office. “Is Sergeant Fuller not with you?”

“He went straight to the canteen. We missed lunch.”

“Didn’t you want something?”

Myra shook her head. “I’ve got to watch my waistline,” she said.

“How did you get on at the golf course?”

“It was pretty much a waste of time. No one had a round booked that day. We checked out the golf cart but there was nothing in the way of fingerprints. He either wiped it down or wore gloves. Either way he left us no clues.”

“And no one else saw him take it and drive halfway across the links?”

“I think he’s bloody lucky, excuse my French,” Myra said.

“Either that, or he knows the golf course well enough to know that he wouldn’t be observed.”

Myra sat down at the desk. “So do you think we’re looking for a golfer, someone who uses the course a lot?”

“We could be,” Jack said. “What I do think is that we’re not having an awful lot of luck with this case. Our killer seems to be invisible.”

“We’ll catch him, sir. He has to make a mistake sooner or later.”

“Let’s just hope it’s sooner, before he gets the chance to kill again.” He stood up from the desk and went across to the notice board and stared at the photos of Frances Anderton and Sandra Duncan. Myra came up beside him.

“Why these two girls, Myra?” Jack said. “Where’s the link?”

Myra stared at the photographs and considered Jack’s questions. “They’re different ages, from different social classes, and totally different in looks.” She shrugged. “It beats me.”

“Then forget about looking at the differences. What did the two girls have in common?”

Myra pondered this for a moment. “Well, neither of the girls was very worldly wise. Frances was very young and, by all accounts, quite naïve, and Sandra came from a very sheltered background, dominated by the church and her parents, and, by all accounts, a wallflower.”

“As you say, neither of them were worldly wise, but both of them, I suspect, could be sweet talked by, say, an older, smooth-talking man. Tim Fellowes is a bit of a smooth talker. I wouldn’t have thought he’d find it difficult to charm Sandra Duncan, and Frances Anderton came into contact with her sister’s boyfriend, Adam Channing, a college lecturer who, again, is quite a bit older, and is obviously a smooth enough operator to ensnare Fiona Anderton who, believe me, is nobody’s fool. Both men seem to have a penchant for much younger women.”

“But you said that Channing didn’t fit the description of our park keeper.”

“Yes, and Fellowes claims that his relationship with Sandra was strictly business, even though I find it unlikely that a solicitor would have an argument with a client on a bench in a public park. But he was out of the country when Sandra Duncan went missing.”

“So that rules them out,” Myra said. She wasn’t sure where her boss was going with this train of thought. The conversation she’d had with Eddie Fuller today had been surprisingly illuminating in regards to Jack Callum.

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