Miss Pink Investigates series Box Set Part Two by Gwen Moffat

Author:Gwen Moffat [Moffat, Gwen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Endeavour Media
Published: 2019-07-10T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 2

She was woken by voices. It was dim in the westward facing room with the curtains drawn. One voice was raised in exasperation — Donna’s: ‘That’s a lie! You said thirty bucks, the two of us.’ There was an indistinct murmur. ‘I tell you—’ Donna was almost shouting, ‘—he didn’t stay the night! What difference does it make—’ The murmur again. ‘Who cares? Who’s there to wake up in this dump anyway? You only got three rooms let and we’re steady.… So what? We pay when we got it: we always paid, didn’t we?’

‘You owe a hundred and sixty,’ came Mrs Webber’s voice quite clearly. ‘You want I should call the police?’

‘A hundred and sixty! What’s with the sixty? A hundred and fifty.’

‘Sixty. He woke the town.’

‘Jeez!’ A door banged. There was the sound of a knob being turned. Mrs Webber spoke again but Miss Pink could not catch the words. A man’s voice asked roughly, ‘You got a problem, Mrs Webber?’

Miss Pink slipped out of bed and moved to a crack at the side of the curtain. A heavy man in a stained baseball cap was standing in the forecourt facing Bunny’s door. Mrs Webber stepped into view. The words ‘Rent’ and ‘Police’ were audible. The man lit a cigarette and smoked it stolidly, staring over Mrs Webber’s head. At the reiteration of the word ‘police’, distinguished perhaps because it was familiar and this was the kind of situation where both the word and the threat might be expected, Mrs Webber stopped talking and the man’s eyes returned to her. He said something quietly and moved forward out of Miss Pink’s line of sight, evidently entering Bunny’s room. Mrs Webber walked smartly to the office, her posture suggesting neither triumph nor defeat. An impasse was indicated. Miss Pink crossed the room to the shower stall and discovered that there was no water.

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