A DATE WITH DEATH a gripping small town crime mystery full of twists (The West Wales Murder Mysteries) by P.F. FORD

Author:P.F. FORD [FORD, P.F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Joffe Books crime thriller, mystery and suspense
Published: 2023-08-13T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

It was 10 a.m. on Saturday.

Henderson was in his office, sitting at his desk, reading and waiting. He was waiting for Sarah to let him know if her sister was prepared to help them out, he was waiting for Parrott to give him some background information on Gillian Bowden, and he was waiting for the surveillance team to let him know what Blackwell was up to.

He had just finished a call to his equivalent rank at Bognor, explaining why he had a surveillance team watching a house in their town. To his surprise this had gone rather better than expected, and once he had explained the case he was working on, and why his team had ended up in Bognor, he was even offered assistance. He had declined at this stage, but had agreed that he would call in the Bognor boys should it become necessary to effect some sort of intervention. His hunch was that Jason Blackwell had actually told them the truth about spending his weekends by the coast. He suspected the man led a double life, and that he actually lived with Gillian Bowden at the weekend.

He was reading through the information they had on Blackwell: it had taken a couple of days to gather, and it wasn’t a great deal. They knew he was twenty-four years old, and that he’d been born and raised in Newcastle. When he left school he’d started an apprenticeship at a small boat-builders yard, but when the company went bust, he seemed to fall off the radar for a while, until he turned up at an address in Portsmouth three years ago. Since then he had moved around the south coast, changing his address every six months or so, until he had moved further inland to his current bedsit four months ago. And that was about it.

There was a driving licence photograph included, and now Henderson studied it. He had met Blackwell, and knew what he looked like, but frankly he thought this photograph could have been anyone. It was all stuff to make any detective suspicious, and Henderson was now becoming quite convinced Blackwell was their burglar, but it was looking increasingly unlikely he was a murderer. Not for the first time he felt they were focusing on the wrong man.

His thoughts were interrupted by a knock on the door. He had left the door wide open as he often did. He saw it as a sign to everyone that he was here too, and they were welcome to come and talk if they felt the need. On this occasion it was Parrott who had the need.

‘Yes, Parrott, what can I do for you?’

Parrott stepped into the office and handed him a couple of printed sheets of paper. ‘You asked me to check out Gillian Bowden,’ he said.

Henderson ignored the notes and focused on Parrott. He could read the details later.

‘So what have we got? Anything I should know?’

‘Gillian Bowden,’ recited Parrott. ‘Thirty-five years old, has lived at sixteen Cathedral View, Bognor, for the past three years.

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