Granny Smith and the Deadly Frogs or The little old lady solves another crime by Dobbs G M

Author:Dobbs, G M [Dobbs, G M]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Red Valley Books
Published: 2013-03-23T16:00:00+00:00

Thirteen

‘Why?’ Mark asked. ‘I’ve already made a statement. Told you everything I know. Why do you want me back down the station?’

Chief inspector Miskin smiled tightly and looked Mark directly in the eyes.

‘You didn’t tell us that you’d slept with Miss Hamish the night before she was killed,’ he said and the two constables with him moved to the door, blocking off any exit should Mark try and make a run for it.

Mark stared back at the policeman, open-mouthed. He made gurgling sounds from the back of his throat as if he was trying to speak but couldn’t quite find the words. For a moment he was speechless, the chief inspector’s word having taken by completely by surprise.

‘Now why is this?’ Miskin asked.’ Why didn’t you tell us.’

‘You didn’t ask me,’ Mark said, the usual bluster was back in his voice. Over the years he’d had many experiences of dealing with the police and he wouldn’t allow himself to be beaten down. The bastards had tried too many times before and Mark’s working class upbringing had taught him to always be on the defensive where the police were concerned. ‘You asked me about the night Carol was killed. I told you where I was then.’

‘Yes,’ Miskin smiled again. ‘For most of the day you were locked in police cells for attacking Tudor Lewis. You then spent the evening in the Bully and went home alone to an empty house and spent the night alone.’

‘So?’ Mark glared at the chief inspector.

‘So it hardly gives you a cast iron alibi.’

Mark shrugged his shoulders.

‘I didn’t kill Carol,’ he said.

‘I never said you did.’

‘Then why all the questions?’

‘Because I need to establish all the facts and the best place we can do that is back at the station, where you can make a formal statement. Another formal and much more detailed statement this time.’

‘And if I refuse?’ Mark asked, he realised that it must have either been Amy or Sue who had told the police of his fling with Carol, since outside of himself they were the only ones who knew about it. One sodding night was all it had been, not even that if the truth were told. He should have kept his mouth shut. Bloody women couldn’t keep anything to themselves.

‘Then I’ll have no option but to arrest you,’ Miskin said, smugly.

‘Just because Carol and I had a thing,’ Mark said. ‘It was nothing really, just a drunken moment. That doesn’t mean I killed her.’

‘No it doesn’t,’ Miskin agreed. ‘But you should have told us when you gave a statement, which is why I need you down the station.’

‘It was personal,’ Mark said. ‘And nothing to do with Carol’s death.’

‘And as soon as we get you down the station we can establish that,’ Miskin said, smugly.

‘This is absurd,’ Mark really didn’t want to go back to the station, but he knew he didn’t really have a choice in the matter.

‘Are you coming?’ Miskin prompted.

Mark looked first at the chief inspector and then at the two uniformed policemen.

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