Can You Kick a Ghost in the Nuts? (A Cozy Mystery): The Harper Files: Book 1 A Blue Moon Novella by Steve Higgs & Gemma Higgs

Author:Steve Higgs & Gemma Higgs [Higgs, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-04-30T16:00:00+00:00

In My Flat. Wednesday, October 20th 1917hrs

The RTA had taken up the rest of the shift. It had been a proper pile-up. Five cars had been mashed into one enormous mess with a further six cars suffering damage as they tried to avoid the carnage in front of them. At the top of the Bluebell Hill, the road leading from the motorway merged onto the dual carriageway leading from Chatham to Maidstone. Traffic on the dual carriageway was always fast moving and to compensate, the cars trying to merge did so at speed. Sometimes someone gets it wrong and auto-violence ensues.

Despite that, our shift had ended more or less on time and I had taken myself home looking forward to three days off. I stopped on the way back to my flat to buy wine and a pizza, dropped the pizza by the oven as I walked through the house and had the top off the wine and the bottle to my lips before I got to the bathroom to turn on the bath.

Soaking in the bath with a book and a goblet of wine, I remembered the cameras. I had forgotten about them with the trauma and drama of the afternoon.

The laptop and the box the cameras came in was still in the boot of my car. It would have to wait, but I was curious to see if I had captured anything. As it turned out I had.

Half an hour later I was finishing off my glass of wine, which was now getting warm and I was sat on my small sofa, in my small flat with the laptop perched on my lap. On the sofa next to me were the remains of the pizza which consisted of four crusts and a few crumbs. I called up the camera feed and set the time back to when I had put them in earlier today. I had the feed from all eight cameras going at once and the speed set to ten times normal. Mostly I was looking at empty lifts, but with the clock whizzing along, a blur would occur periodically as someone, or several someones, got on and then got off again. I could not tell, of course, if the lifts were going up or down, only that people were getting on and off. The two infrared cameras showed a glassy white image in which I could detect vague movement but nothing else.

I stared at the screen for fifteen minutes. It was getting boring. I did some mental calculation. I had roughly six hours of footage, but the shops had shut at six o’clock so probably only four hours were worth looking at. Therefore, I should only have about twenty-four minutes of footage to scan at high speed.

Was that right?

I did the maths again and decided I was correct. Then one of the screens went black, it was just a blip that had lasted perhaps one second but watching it in fast forward meant at least ten seconds had passed.

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