Getting Away with Murder? by Anne Morice

Author:Anne Morice
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dean Street Press
Published: 2021-05-09T16:00:00+00:00

The first part of the journey home passed merrily enough in tearing the production to pieces and then reassembling it, in order to repeat the process from another point of view. When that topic was exhausted, we moved on to the mysterious behaviour of Jimmie and his sprained wrist. Toby, to whom all this came as news, was not disposed to treat it seriously.

‘Quite simple,’ he announced, ‘he used the first excuse that came into his retarded little head not to go on tonight and, for once, I do not blame him.’

‘You may be right,’ I admitted, ‘it does sound like that, but all the same it’s out of character. Retarded or not, he’s still a pro and he’d rather be seen in fifth-rate surroundings than not be seen at all.’

‘On the other hand,’ Robin said, ‘whatever he may or may not have done to his wrist, I doubt very much if he has sprained it.’

‘Why?’

‘Because Bobbie told us it was his left one.’

‘And?’

‘You might conceivably get away with steering right handed only, if you were cautious, but with a right hand drive it’s the left one which has to do all the work.’

‘How about if it was an automatic?’

‘This one isn’t. My copper’s eye is trained to pick out such trivia and last night Jimmie was driving an ancient Triumph convertible. Automatic gears had scarcely been heard of when that model was built.’

‘There now!’ I said. ‘And just fancy! I think I’ll ring him up in the morning and tease him a bit. The more he goes on about how his wrist is quite all right now, thank you, the more I’ll keep insisting that he ought to get it X-rayed.’

‘You’d better watch it!’ Robin said, turning into our tree-lined drive. ‘One of these days your sadistic sense of humour will get you into trouble.’

I did not take this warning seriously and I daresay I was not intended to, but all the same the threat was never carried out. The morning was to provide more interesting events to occupy the mind, and the subject of Jimmie and his sprained wrist was temporarily relegated to the miscellaneous memory file.

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