A Spoonful of Poison by M. C Beaton
Author:M. C Beaton [Beaton, M. C]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Contemporary, Humour
ISBN: 9780312943509
Google: mDy3czsd_OIC
Amazon: 0312943504
Barnesnoble: 0312943504
Goodreads: 6746801
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Published: 2008-09-29T14:00:00+00:00
Agatha could not believe her luck the next morning when she found Jimmy, stretched out on the sofa, fast asleep. The office was full of stale beer fumes. His jacket was hanging over the back of a chair. She felt in the pockets and extracted his keys. Quietly she let herself out and rushed to the nearest key cutters. She looked at her watch. Ten to nine. The shop door was closed. She impatiently rattled the handle. The blind on the door was raised and the shopkeeper mouthed, “Closed,” and pointed to his watch.
Agatha opened her handbag and took a twenty-pound note out of her wallet and waved it. The door opened. “I need an extra set of house keys,” said Agatha. “Twenty pounds over the price if you do it now.”
Soon she had the keys copied and hurried back to the office. Jimmy was sitting up, staring blearily around.
Agatha walked towards her desk and knocked his jacket to the floor as she did so. She slipped Jimmy’s keys on top of the jacket and then rounded on him.
“What where you doing sleeping in the office?”
“I had a bit of a bevvy last night,” said Jimmy. “Too many coppers around, so I decided to sleep it off here.”
“You’d better go home and get a bath and then take yourself off to Brighton. It’s the Tropper case. Mrs. Tropper thinks he’s taking his bit of stuff to Brighton. He told her he was there on a sales conference. Check and see.”
Jimmy stood up. “I’ll get off. I’ll need an advance for expenses.”
Agatha unlocked the office safe and took out a wad of notes. “I want you to account for every penny of that.”
“Sure. See you. Bye.”
The rest of Agatha’s staff were all out on jobs. She telephoned each of them to say she had the keys and they all said they would come back in for a council of war. She suggested they meet at the Sorrento Cafe in Mircester so that Mrs. Freedman wouldn’t know what they were up to. She phoned Charles as well, but he said he had to go home to deal with things.
Agatha could only hope and pray that Jimmy would not turn out to be the culprit. Such a scandal would hit the agency hard.
When they were all seated in the cafe, Agatha said, “Toni and I had better go. We’d be less conspicuous.”
“Are you sure?” asked Phil. “I could come along as bodyguard.”
Agatha looked affectionately at Phil’s elderly face and white hair and said, “We’ll be all right. Jimmy’s not going to hurry back from an expenses-paid trip to Brighton.”
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