A Knife in Darkness by Lexie Conyngham

Author:Lexie Conyngham [Conyngham, Lexie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781910926222
Publisher: The Kellas Cat Press
Published: 2016-12-30T05:00:00+00:00

She returned to the parlour in a thoughtful mood. It would require some good excuse for her to leave the house this morning in this damp mist, and instead she took up her sewing and applied her mind to her problems. Durris seemed to think that Patrick might have had something to do with the Colonel’s murder. She did not believe that he had. Therefore, someone else had done the deed – or deeds – and then, another person had broken into Dinnet House afterwards, too. It was just possible, she thought now, that they had been the same person. What if the murderer had taken something, but afterwards found it was the wrong thing? She stabbed sharply at the cloth. No use pursuing that idea for the moment, when they had no idea even if anything was missing, or when it might have gone.

Durris would have to have the minister, or Mr. Strong, or Dr. Durward, or Mr. Strachan, or all four, go through the mortification papers and see if there was anything amiss. But then, if there were something amiss, presumably one of them already knew about it: she had heard of no one else who had a concern in the trust, or a right to see the papers. The four trustees were the only men who would notice something wrong, and the only four presumably who would have had the chance to make something wrong. She stabbed again, and wondered if her father would like to pay his youngest and favourite daughter a visit and give her a little advice. But if Durris had any sense, he would find some other local lawyer to look through the trust papers and see if anything was wrong with them. In any case, he would probably not accept the word of the father-in-law of his chief suspect. How could she persuade Durris that Patrick could not be responsible for Colonel Verney’s death?

The obvious way to do it would be to show Durris who had, in fact, carried out the killings. That would be tricky: it was not exactly a job for the respectable new wife of the local physician, particularly one who was not well acquainted with the town. But then, it seemed likely that the miscreant was someone known to Colonel Verney, as they had not been a common burglar, so there was a high chance that she had already met, or heard of, the murderer in the few days she had been here. Belatedly, a chill ran up her spine. In her anxiety over Patrick and for Basilia’s well-being, it had not occurred to her that the murderer was likely to be someone she knew.

If there was indeed something wrong with the trust, then the four chief suspects, she thought, trying to be orderly, were the four existing trustees. It would be a matter of working out which of them might have done something wrong, and how they might have tried to hush it up. Mr. Strong the lawyer, Dr.

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