Under Mary's Oak by Tanya Carlysle

Author:Tanya Carlysle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: crime, school, female sleuth, newcastle, miss marple, english police
Publisher: Tanya Carlysle

Chapter Eighteen

Meanwhile Laura was making her way down to the Sports Hall. Arthur Connolly had arrived a few minutes before and had asked if there were any more developments. Laura did not tell him about Stella. She knew it would put him in the same difficult position that she herself was in, and until she knew more she thought she’d keep it to herself. Arthur had proudly shown her his new camera, a Sony SLT which apparently meant single-lens translucent, whatever that might be.

Laura listened politely as they walked. When she was younger she had toyed with photography as a hobby and had even set up a dark room in the spare bedroom. It was, of course, in the days of 35mm film and she had been frustrated in her attempts to produce colour prints that were not all blue and purple. Eventually she had given up and now she owned a very simple point-and-click digital camera which served her purposes perfectly well. Robert, of course, sometimes used a more complex camera in his work to help him to remember the detail of some fleeting images.

‘And it takes ten pictures a second, so I’ll always be able to get a perfect shot of the girls scoring goals and such-like,’ Arthur continued. ‘And I got it for a bargain price, just over a thousand.’

Laura gulped, ‘A thousand pounds?’

‘Yes, they retail for nearer fifteen hundred.’

Laura was quite pleased she had given up photography as a hobby. Her little digital camera did a perfectly good job. It was so much easier now that you could see instantly whether you had taken a decent picture instead of remembering to take the film into Boots and wait for it to be developed, or even worse, develop it yourself and end up with very strange colours! The only problem was not having hard copies of the results, but Robert had bought an electronic photo frame and that had solved the problem.

Several parents had arrived and Laura and the Chairman took the opportunity to chat to them. On the whole they seemed reassured by the fact that the place was not swarming with policemen and school seemed to be proceeding as normal. Laura was relieved Mr Walsh was not in attendance. This was an event for Years 7 and 8 only and his daughters were older.

Laura had taken the opportunity to talk to Jill Cox earlier and she was pleased to see that she was chatting animatedly to some of the girls, and looking quite relaxed. Jen Smythe picked up the microphone and encouraged the parents to take their seats. It was time to begin.

Laura and the Chairman had seats on the front row, and Arthur snapped away happily throughout the afternoon. He really did enjoy these occasions, and Laura had to admit his photographs were very good, if somewhat numerous! But a photographic record of school life was very important. Each year the school hosted reunions for former pupils, the Old Montgomerians, and the photographic archives

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