In the Beginning, There was a Murder by James P.C

Author:James, P.C.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: James Gang Publishing
Published: 2020-10-30T00:00:00+00:00

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Ramsay

Ramsay slouched in his office chair. And, as he did every weekend at this time, he thought how much he hated Sunday more than any other day. Everything was closed. Watching people going to church still made him angry, even after all this time. He didn’t play sports so had no interest in Sunday leagues of anything, and the pubs didn’t open until late. Work was his only escape.

Yesterday’s bollocking from the Super rankled. It should have made him angry at Pauline bloody Riddell, but it didn’t. She had provided good information that proved to be real when his people examined it. The only problem was, like so many good leads in any case, it turned out to be a dead end. What made him angry was the people above him had taken the opportunity to bury the unsolved murder by re-assigning him and his team to a new murder, which is why not only he, but all his officers, were in so early on Sunday. Jennifer Middleton had been strangled last night at a private home in one of the city’s better suburbs. A nice girl from a nice family had been murdered in her own home while her nice parents were at a nice dinner party with their nice friends.

For Ramsay, this re-assignment was a source of deep unhappiness because he knew his superiors wouldn’t have reassigned everyone if the new murder victim hadn’t been a daughter of one of their own. Jenny Middleton wasn’t the daughter of a senior police officer, exactly, but the daughter of someone who moved in their circles. Ramsay was no radical, but it offended his notion of fairness. Marjorie Armstrong may have been just a regular kid with pretensions above her station, but she didn’t deserve what happened to her and accepting the easy way out was letting her down.

He rose from his chair and paced the room, unable to settle or work. The new investigation was to go on every day, all day, until the killer was found. No expense was to be spared. He could no longer spend time on poor Marjorie Armstrong; she was yesterday’s news.

The new killing had spared the blushes of his superiors, and his own too, by changing the public’s focus away from the old unsolved murder to this new one. It was in his best interests, of course, to let the earlier one slide out of the public’s consciousness. He knew he should, but he couldn’t bring himself to take that seductively easy route. And he knew someone, however, who was equally determined to go on. Only, she’d now been very officially warned off by the police, with him as the messenger, and for her to investigate further could get her into serious trouble. He had no right to ask that of anyone.

He grabbed his coat and left the building, telling the desk sergeant he’d be away only a couple of hours; he had a lead he wanted to follow up. Outside, he walked quickly out of sight of the station and then, taking a narrow alley, headed for the bus terminal.

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