WHITE CHRISTMAS WITH A WOBBLY KNEE by ANDREA FRAZER

Author:ANDREA FRAZER
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781783756322
Publisher: Accent Press
Published: 2013-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Plotting

When the police presence had removed itself, Lady Amanda courteously showed out her guests, and promised to call on them all to get the feedback from their tour, if they would be so kind as to let her. No one demurred, and she felt it was best to leave this part of what she had wanted to achieve for another day, especially as she felt so excited about being involved with another murder, and was doing her damndest not to show it.

Once back in the drawing room with a cocktail apiece, she began to show the true colours of her mood. ‘We’re in business again, Hugo! We’ve got a new investigation, and we’ve really got a head start on Moody, because we know the world these people move in. We’re going detecting tomorrow and I can hardly wait! What say you, old thing?’

‘Oh no!’ exclaimed Hugo, who had forgotten her comment about the mysterious Virginia and Santa Claus, dismissing it as just a throw-away line, and had hoped she could keep her nose out of police affairs this time. If Moody went digging about in the past for motives, Manda’s family had quite a lot of closets absolutely bursting with skeletons.

‘Oh, yes, Hugo! I’ll bet my shirt that it was something to do with that blasted book he’s said to have been writing. If he’s going to blow the lid on the CountySet, no wonder someone had it in for him. He was just a social climber, after all’s said and done. That’s the only reason he married Porky when no one else would have her.’

‘But, Manda, if he’s been poking and prying into everyone’s past, has it not crossed your mind that you’ll be a really prominent suspect?’

‘What are you talking about, Hugo?’

Lowering his voice, Hugo hissed, ‘One: your mother not being dead, two: her running a knocking-shop here for the GIs in the war, three: your daddy’s trade on the Black Market, and four: his arms deals after hostilities had ceased.’ This statement of facts was greeted with quite a long silence.

‘Bum!’ said Lady Amanda. ‘I hadn’t thought about any of that. But that’s even more reason for us to get at the truth before Moody. If we can provide him with a murderer, maybe we can get Porky to suppress the book, or take it out of the publisher’s hands or something. What you’ve just said makes it even more urgent that we get on to this murderer’s trail before the police. It’s not just me that will be in deep doo-doos, it’s all my friends as well, and you can bet that their families aren’t all sea-green incorruptible.

‘We’ve got to solve this to save the family honour, not only of the Golightlys, of all our friends, Hugo. Don’t you see that? It’s imperative that we beat that ratty little muff-ball to the solution, for all our sakes. And don’t get all holier-than-thou about your own kin. Daddy used to tell stories about your father that would make your hair stand on end.

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