Death Under the Stars by C.A. Larmer

Author:C.A. Larmer
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: humor, international mystery, crafts hobbies, dog, romance, female friendships, amateur sleuths
Publisher: C.A. Larmer
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

And so the two men were released without charge and the case had stalled all over again.

“Just ’cause we haven’t got any evidence doesn’t mean they didn’t do it,” Jackson said, sulkily, and Indira had to agree.

“But it does mean we can’t hold them. And it also means we need to keep an open mind. I don’t want to focus on those two and forget that plenty of other people had access and opportunity.”

He couldn’t disagree with that.

“So what’d our unhappy camper have to say?”

She looked at him, puzzled for a moment, and then said, “Oh, Guy Peters. He was a font of knowledge, that one.”

It turns out the security officer did recall an older man with a moustache who loitered by the side gate a few times with the other smokers.

“But he didn’t seem real interested in the plot,” Guy had told her earlier that evening. “So we chewed the fat for a bit.”

“What’d you talk about?” she had asked.

“This and that,” Guy replied, rubbing his now sunburnt nose. “Let me think.”

“He remembered a couple of very interesting things as it turns out,” Indira told Jackson now. “Was under the impression the man was waiting for someone, might have got stood up. Reckons he checked his phone a lot and seemed increasingly agitated as the night progressed. Said something about, ‘That’s the last time I trust women’ or something like that.”

Jackson sat up in his chair. “Say again?”

She laughed. “I know what you’re thinking: Was he referring to the victim?”

“Well, was he? You’ve got to wonder. Was he angry with women in general or one woman in particular? And if it was one woman, maybe that woman was Kat Mumford. I mean, run with me here. I’m going to throw some wild theories about.”

She winced but waved him on. She liked wild theories about as much as she liked wild hair, and the tight plait down her back demonstrated exactly what she thought of that.

“Okay, so what if this moustached man—let’s call him ‘Mo Man’—was Kat’s lover or something? Maybe he was furious to find her kissing her husband at the park. Maybe he thought they were separated or something.”

“That’s a lot of ‘maybes,’” Indira said. “Besides, wouldn’t Kat have noticed him? He was about six feet away.”

“She was blind drunk remember? And she arrived late, might not have seen him loitering behind the pregnant woman in the dark.” He began madly clicking his fingers. “Oh no! I’ve got a better one! What if he was Kat’s sponsor? From AA?”

He did a final click in front of her face, looking pretty proud of his hypothesis.

Indira was a lot less impressed. “Okay, so this ‘sponsor’ just happens to be at the film that night and just happens to be seated two blankets away. He notices Kat shit-faced and decides to strangle her? Why would he do that?”

“Maybe he was angry at her for falling off the wagon.”

She laughed and looked at her watch. “Okay, I think we need to call it a night.

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