Exit actors, dying (A Penelope Spring - Tobias Glendower murder mystery) by Margot Arnold

Author:Margot Arnold [Arnold, Margot]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Greece, Mystery fiction, Spring, Penny (Fictitious character)
Publisher: Playboy Press
Published: 1979-06-15T06:00:00+00:00

92 MARGOT ARNOLD

she got back to the hotel. He had got nowhere with Wolf Vincent, who had brushed him off decisively and then left for parts unknown. Feeling somewhat deflated herself, Penny filled Toby in on her conversation with Gale Thompson; it did nothing to improve his spirits. %*'So we still know nothing about Thompson and his drug connections/' he reflected.

"Not much more, no, except that, like Melody, our second victim does seem to have had a nicer side to him/' Penny said. "I'm beginning to like our murderer less and less in consequence, and I really wish I could think of some way to help that poor girl. She's going through a little private hell at the moment."

Toby was suddenly restless. "I could use a break from all this. Let's go for a walk and do some sight-seeing. After all, damn it, it's what we came here for, and we haven't seen a single thing as yet."

They went for their walk, ending up in the basilica. Once safely back in the past, Toby soon regained his usual good humor. As he droned on and walkeid on, however, Penny became more and more conscious of her aching feet, so that it was with considerable relief that a sudden cloudburst, accompanied by sight-and-sound effects supplied by Zeus in a fine frenzy, caused them to seek shelter under a colonnade of the basilica. As Toby's scholastic monologue droned on, Penny sat on a pillar and rubbed her tired feet, conjuring up in her mind the touching little tableau between Andrew and Carla Vincent that she had unwittingly interrupted. He certainly was in a temper, she reflected. He looked as if he could cheerfully murder someone. She stopped, appalled at her own thought.

The lightning flashed and the thunder crashed and the rain continued to pour down in sheets. Even under the protection of the colonnade, they were beginning to feel distinctly damp and chilly, and Penny saw with misgivings the hands of her watch creeping around to dinnertime. She had missed her breakfast, as she had feared, and the events of the morning had left her without her usual enthusiasm for lunch; so now she was ravenous again. "If this keeps up, well be late for dinner," she said, breaking into Toby's continuing soliloquy. "Do you think we should make a run for it?"

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