Last Rights by James Green

Author:James Green
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Accent Press
Published: 2018-06-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Two

Inspector Brownlow had phoned at ten and they arrived at eleven fifteen but, as the interview was taking place in his suite, not at the police station, Jimmy still felt ahead of the game. It was the senior officer, Brownlow, who was doing the talking again. Liu was busy practising his Madame Tussaud’s impression, still and silent.

‘Detective Liu has told me about your information. Tell me, Mr Costello, was there any reason why you made your message personal for Detective Liu? Why not me?’

‘I could remember his name. I’d forgotten yours.’

‘Can I see this letter? The one from your friend who died.’

‘No.’

‘No?’

‘It’s in Rome. A friend has a key to my apartment, Professor McBride. She collects my mail. I told her to call me if any of it was important. She phoned me and told me about the letter from England.’

‘You didn’t mind her reading your mail?’

‘No, I get very little mail and most of what I get is bills or junk. I can’t remember the last time I got anything personal. If you want to see the letter I can get Professor McBride to fax it to you.’

‘Thank you, Mr Costello, that would be most helpful.’

‘Shall I get it faxed here to the hotel and bring it to you or do you want it sent to the station?’

‘Here will do. You say this Laura Lawrence was waiting for you when you went to the chaplaincy?’

‘Yes. She was one of the three Sr Gray had arranged for me to meet. I told you about the meeting when you came the first time, remember?’

‘Yes, I remember. Why do you suppose she waited for you?’

‘At the time I thought she just wanted to know what was going on. Now I think she wanted to see what I knew and what, if anything, I was going to do. I’m afraid I was sloppy and she did better at asking the questions than I did. Still, that may have been a break for me.’

‘A break?’

‘If she was the one who killed Sr Gray and Sr Philomena and thought I knew anything or was going to poke around too much I might be in the morgue now, not here chatting with you two.’

‘Really, Mr Costello, do you want us to think that this Laura Lawrence is some sort of homicidal maniac? I assure you, pre-meditated, multiple murders are very rare, and one where the victims are separated by six thousand miles would probably be unique. As an ex-detective I would have thought you’d know that.’

‘Yes, they are rare. But I still think you may have just found one in your back yard. I think Lawrence has killed twice, and if Brinkmeyer’s death was somehow down to her and not suicide, it would be three times. I don’t get the feeling that one more dead body would have worried her. As it is, she thinks I’m harmless.’

‘Harmless?’

‘When I spoke to her I was ready to pack it in and go home. She could see I wasn’t interested in doing anything.

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