Hiss and Hers by M. C. Beaton

Author:M. C. Beaton
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2012-12-22T05:00:00+00:00

The next morning, the vicar padded about the sitting room, looking for his favourite pen. He could hear the clatter of dishes in the kitchen as his wife prepared breakfast.

Thinking he might have dropped it on the floor, he got down on his hands and knees and looked under the sofa. He saw a small carrier bag he didn’t recognise and pulled it out.

He was just about to open it when his wife walked in. “Leave that!” said Mrs. Bloxby quickly. “I’m keeping it for someone. Your breakfast’s ready. What are you doing on the floor?”

“I’ve lost my pen. It’s the gold-plated one I won in that crossword competition.”

“It’s on the mantelpiece, behind that vase.”

The vicar got to his feet. “Oh, great.”

“Now, have your breakfast.”

When the vicar had collected his pen and gone into the kitchen, Mrs. Bloxby seized the bag and looked wildly around. She went through the French windows, down the garden and into the churchyard. Mrs. Bloxby had already examined the contents of the bag and had recognised the machine as a listening device, having recently read an article on spy gadgets. Mr. Barret-Jynes had been buried the day before. A spade was lying beside the freshly dug grave. She seized the spade, dug a hole, shoved the bag in, piled earth on top of it and then smoothed the earth flat with a hefty whack of the spade.

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