Death of a Minor Character by E.X. Ferrars

Author:E.X. Ferrars
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781631942778
Publisher: Felony & Mayhem Press
Published: 2022-12-21T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

If Rose had been less vehement, I should have felt more convinced. I did not know what it was about her, but I always found it difficult to believe the whole of what she told me. Perhaps Roland Straker was as good a man as she had said, but perhaps he was not. I had no reason to think that he was not and I had never felt any doubt of him before, but as I drove home I began to worry over what kind of man he really was.

I guessed that what had just started me wondering about him was the feeling that Rose herself was scared that he might not be all he seemed. It could even be that she knew he was not and that the fear I had felt behind her sudden outburst was that this might be discovered. But did that mean that I was seriously considering the possibility that he could be involved in pushing drugs, that that was where his money came from, that he might even be Marcus’s murderer?

No, I told myself, of course not. That was sheer fantasy of the kind that might have attracted Felix but was really not my line. Normally I am fairly sober in my assessment of people and I remembered how much I had liked Roland Straker when he was my patient. On the whole, I reflected, it would be sensible at the present moment to rely on first impressions and not start thinking of a nice man as if he might be an ogre. All the same, I was deeply upset by the discovery that drugs had come into the picture. I knew very little about them, but thought of everything to do with the enormous profits to be made out of their secret distribution with a horror that was more or less in the same class as my feelings about cold-blooded terrorism.

As I turned into Ellsworthy Street I saw that there was a car at my gate and that the car was a Rolls. I knew only one person who possessed a Rolls and that was Roland Straker. I could not think why he should have come to call on me, and in the mood I was in I did not look forward to seeing him, but it was not to be avoided. When I stopped my car behind his, I saw him standing in my porch. It looked as if he had only just arrived and rung my bell and was now waiting for an answer.

I left my car in the road instead of putting it into the garage and went up the path to the door. He turned when he heard my footsteps.

“Ah, I’m so glad I’ve caught you,” he said. “May I come in? I’d like to talk to you.”

I unlocked the door and let him in.

“How are you?” I asked. “Not more of the old trouble with your hip, I hope.”

“Oh no, this isn’t a professional visit.”

I had known

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