Death at the Jesus Hospital by David Dickinson

Author:David Dickinson [Dickinson, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: cookie429, Kat, Extratorrents
ISBN: 9781780330303
Publisher: Soho Press
Published: 2011-01-03T13:00:00+00:00

Inspector Miles Devereux had removed his feet from the desk and hooted with laughter when Johnny Fitzgerald telephoned with the news about overnight visitors at the Elysian Fields. He asked Johnny to see if the visitor was coming back to London by train. If so, once Johnny told Devereux the time of the train, she could be intercepted at the London end. Inspector Devereux looked forward to questioning her.

But his main concern that morning was with the two principal characters in his section of the investigation, Sir Peregrine Fishborne who was very much alive and Sir Rufus Walcott who was very much dead. He had decided two days before that he needed more information about them, about their past, about anything that happened some time before that might give rise to sudden death years later. Two of his brightest men had been given the task of finding as much as they could about the life stories of the dead man and the one who had succeeded him as Prime Warden of the Silkworkers Company.

‘It’s all very conventional,’ said David Lawrence, the constable assigned to Sir Peregrine. ‘I started in Who’s Who, that’s not much use really, a whole lot stuff about his progress through the livery company. I talked to a couple of reporters who write about the City, sir, and they said his life only got interesting with this row about the Silkworkers and the codicil. He’s well connected, Sir Peregrine, one cousin on the board of one of the big banks, another runs a shipping company, a third is a big noise in Lloyd’s the insurers. You could, one of these reporters said, coast along quite happily in the slipstream of those relations if you kept your nose clean and played your cards right. Sir Peregrine’s chairman of a middling sized insurance company, plenty of money, but not as much as the other members of the family. The other reporter thought this was what started him off on the codicil and the selling off of the assets. He has to keep up with Cousin Rupert at the bank and Cousin Jeremy at the shipping and Cousin Nigel in Lloyd’s.’

‘Would Sir Peregrine become richer than the others if he sold off the assets?’ asked Devereux, thinking perhaps of his own family where the brothers proliferated but the assets had long since disappeared.

‘Richer, probably,’ said Constable Lawrence, ‘but I didn’t ask that question, so that’s a guess.’

‘And what of Sir Rufus?’ Inspector Devereux was hoping for better things from his second sleuth, Constable Conrad.

‘He’s pretty conventional too,’ said Conrad who was, at twenty-two years of age, the youngest member of Devereux’s team. ‘There is one curious thing about him, sir, and that’s his entry in Who’s Who.’

‘What on earth has happened to his entry in Who’s Who?’

‘There’s this gap, sir. St Paul’s School, Christ Church, Oxford, then a gap until he’s thirty-five years old. At that point he turns up on the board of the Town and Capital Insurance Company and never looks back.

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