A Lesson in Murder by Alan Fisher

Author:Alan Fisher [Fisher, Alan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

Oliver arrived at headquarters the following morning feeling less than rested having spent half the night re-thinking his conversation with Bob Wilson before concluding that his first instincts had been right. There was a message somewhere, but to prove it, he would have to go through all of the evidence again.

But he knew as he approached his desk that it would have to wait. In less than half an hour his class of graduates would be arriving to go through the results of their latest exercise. He hoped that this time there would be some signs of progress, but he couldn’t keep the doubts away from the front of his thoughts.

Jack and Colin were both missing from the office having agreed the previous evening that they would meet up at the morgue with Dr Crosby to go through his findings on the autopsy of the latest victim. Oliver wasn’t disappointed to be missing out, he had too much on his mind as it was. He needed to set the final exercise for the class and then planned to go through the contents of the victim’s handbags again. He doubted if the autopsy results on Nicola Turnbull would reveal anything other than confirmation that the killer was the same as in Monica’s case, and he was convinced of that already.

Jack had asked him to hang around at headquarters when he was finished with the graduates and they would all meet up there when he and Colin were finished with Dr Crosby. Oliver hadn’t complained because he was hoping that he would have enough time to go through the evidence again before Jack and Colin returned. Something was bugging him, and he wanted to check out his theory before letting Jack know.

At 8.55am Oliver made his way to the conference room to find the class already seated and the pile of envelopes already neatly placed at the head of the table.

“Morning everyone, give me a few minutes to have a look through the results and then we’ll go over the thinking behind the clue before setting you the final exercise”.

As he walked around the table he noticed that, once again, David Crozier had brought a newspaper in with him and had laid it on the table in front of him, between himself and his partner Gordon Stewart. Oliver knew the gesture was meant to provoke some sort of reaction, but he ignored the temptation. The headline on the front of the newspaper, nevertheless, caught his eye as he walked past;

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