Impact of Evidence: A Welsh Borders Mystery by Carnac Carol
Author:Carnac, Carol
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: British Library Publishing
Published: 2024-02-12T00:00:00+00:00
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âIâd certainly say the standard of intelligence is being well maintained,â said Lancing, when they had left the onion-laden fug of the Evansesâ cottage and returned gratefully to the Bentley, where they both lighted cigarettes. Rivers nodded.
âYes. Evans is much brighter than he looksâand his wifeâs a masterpiece. Sheâs the real brains of the outfit. I wonder where she came from. Neither of them were country born; Evans came here after the â14ââ18 war, and I should guess he might have originated in Bristol. But what a hell of a lot of mischief they could make if they really got going in a coronerâs court. That story of seeing Dering drive the doctorâs carâit could be neither proved nor disproved, but itâd be very damaging to Dering. Itâs the sort of smear story that implants a doubt in honest peopleâs minds.â
âAny germination going on in your own grey matter?â enquired Lancing.
âI donât know, laddy. Thatâs the devil of it. That womanâs an obese old horror and as venomous as a rattlesnakeâbut she may be right, you know. I donât think sheâd have played the marriage lines card if she hadnât got something. And whereas you can say itâs no business of ours if the Derings are lawfully married or notâweâre not moral censors, thank Godâweâve got to admit that if theyâre not married theyâve offered hostages to blackmailers.â
âI know,â said Lancing soberly. âAnd there was the suggestion about chucking Welby downstairs. Itâs obvious Mike Dering could have done itâwe realised that all the time.â
âSo could Alf Evans have chucked Welby downstairs,â replied Rivers. âHeâd worked in the house at one time; he could have got hold of a keyâand I donât believe the shepherd chap would have noticed the time. Their clock doesnât go and that elderly radio had been defunct for years by the look of it.â
âCould we be back at the HenryâMike solution?â queried Lancing. âEvans looted the body, then came the car crash and it all looked Bobâs your uncle until a policeman came nosing around. And if Welby had died, chief, wouldnât Michael Dering have been very near a capital charge? We can afford to go easy about him, because Welby will soon be able to tell us what happenedâbut the other would have been a different kettle of fish. Dering was alone in the woodshed all that afternoon.â
Rivers nodded. âThe Evanses hate the Derings like stink,â he said. âThe Derings got the cottage and the job the Evanses wanted, and I suppose Mrs. Evans resented Susan Dering because, to put it crudely, Susanâs a lady.â
âAnything there?â queried Lancing. âSay if the whole job went haywire, chief. Alf Evans murdered some old pal of his own and got it all nicely taped to prove that Dering had done itâbringing off a doubleâand then old Robinson mucked it all up by finding the body and heaving it into his car and got killed on top of it.â
âItâs too complicated,â said Rivers. âPull up here again; I want to have another look at that Buick.
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