Border Angels by Anthony J. Quinn
Author:Anthony J. Quinn [Quinn, Anthony]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781784088132
Publisher: Head of Zeus
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Irwin sprang from his seat when Daly entered his office. He had a lukewarm cup of tea in his hand and deposited it beside Dalyâs paperwork. He looked pleased with himself.
âI thought youâd be back earlier,â said Irwin. âYou might still get the good out of that cuppa.â
Irwin was not a natural tea boy, and Daly suspected he was there purely out of professional curiosity. Glancing at his untidy desk, he wondered if Irwin had been going through his paperwork.
âWhat did the commander have to say?â
Daly paused. âA few suggestions about the direction of the investigation. Thatâs all. I think itâs time we reviewed Fowlerâs drowning. Go through the evidence again to see if we missed anything.â
âWeâve already examined everything.â
Nevertheless, they spent an hour sorting through the case so far. They dug through Fowlerâs life and business dealings, but found little to point to a murderer. Daly picked up the bag containing the opera CD. They had yet to identify the owner of the fingerprints left on the cover.
âThis was the music playing when he drowned,â said Daly. âIt must have some sort of significance, sentimental or otherwise.â
âFor whom? If there was a killer there that morning, perhaps the fingerprints are his,â suggested Irwin.
Daly studied the CD, thinking it was time to visit Mrs. Fowler again.
âI almost forgot,â said Irwin as Daly was about to leave. âA call came through from Customs officers. They raided a farmhouse this morning close to Keady, after a tip-off about an illegal fuel-laundering plant.â
âDid they find anything?â
âThe message was unclear. The tip-off claimed a man with a gun had abducted three Croatian women. The place was completely deserted by the time Customs got there. Not as much as a squeak from a rat, but they uncovered an operational fuel-laundering plant with several tankers, also set up for illegal alcohol bottling. They suspect the people working there did a runner across the border.â
âWhy didnât they call us out to assist with the raid?â
âThey have to act immediately on this sort of intelligence and swoop; otherwise the evidence will be destroyed.â
âAny more details about the women?â
âNothing as yet. All they have is the tip-off, and thatâs secondhand. Itâll be impossible to get any witnesses. No one will want to incriminate himself.â
âGet back to them and speak to the officers who carried out the raid,â said Daly. âFind out as much information as possible about what happened to those women.â
âOK,â replied Irwin. âThe officer in charge of the raid was someone called Dukes, at least thatâs what I think the duty sergeant said.â But Daly had already left.
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