Death Dealing by Ian Patrick

Author:Ian Patrick [Patrick, Ian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery; Thriller & Suspense, Mystery, International Mystery & Crime, Thrillers & Suspense, Crime, Thrillers
ISBN: 1519212003
Amazon: B0177YL758
Published: 2015-12-06T16:00:00+00:00

14.45.

Koekemoer and Dippenaar had little success in questioning people in and around Nomivi’s Tavern. Not one of the staff members was willing to engage in any discussion with amaphoyisa, especially white Afrikaner detectives. They all knew the possible consequences of doing so, if not at the hands of the people these two cops were looking for then at the hands of friends and acquaintances of the drug dealers.

Nevertheless, not knowing their rights, two of the staff reluctantly showed the detectives around and even opened the locked back rooms for the policemen.

It was not Dippenaar’s first visit to the place. He had assisted Ryder some months earlier, when Ryder investigated a few possible connections to drug dealers at Nomivi’s Tavern. Upon questioning the cleaners about the whereabouts of the man known as Spikes Mkhize, long-standing friend of one Skhura Thabethe, he noticed the give-away pause and stumble and correction as she first said she had never heard of the man, then said oh, yes, perhaps she remembered seeing the man once, and then said yes, now she remembered, he had stayed for a while in the back rooms but he had disappeared a few months ago and had not been seen since.

Dippenaar stared at her in silence and let her stew a little before he spoke.

‘Yissus, sister. You better go and see a doctor sometime soon.’

‘Excuse me?’ she replied, while Koekemoer chuckled, standing with his arms crossed as his companion handled the questioning.

‘You got a real problem there with your memory, hey?’

‘I’m not understanding the question.’

‘First you tell me you never heard of the man. Then you tell me yes, maybe. Then you tell me of course, yes, he was staying here. Did you forget, maybe, that you shared a bed with him? Was the guy so bad in bed that you can’t even remember the experience?’

Koekemoer interrupted, speaking in faulty isiZulu, and managed to extract more information from her. The man known as Spikes had left and was living somewhere in the Transkei, she said. He had disappeared three months ago and had since then telephoned from Umtata to say that he wouldn’t be coming back. Since then the rooms had been locked and no-one was using them.

A cursory look around the rooms indicated to the detectives that this version was probably accurate. The place was filthy and did indeed look as if nobody had entered for the last three months.

There was no way the two detectives were going to get any reliable information from Nomivi’s Tavern, so they left after no more than twenty minutes.

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