Mud, Muck and Dead Things by Ann Granger

Author:Ann Granger
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781788630993
Publisher: Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Published: 2018-04-05T16:00:00+00:00

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From the front step, Harper watched his visitor drive off then turned back into the hall, slamming the solid oak door behind him.

‘Blast!’ he said forcefully, the word echoing round the high ceiling.

‘Something wrong?’

Harper looked up and paled. His wife was standing in the doorway of the dining room, next to the study. She was wearing her usual daytime uniform of jodhpurs and sleeveless body-warmer.

‘Who was that?’ she asked.

‘I thought you were at the stables?’ He stared at her, nonplussed.

‘I was delayed… I had to deal with some post. I was using the dining-room table as a desk.’

‘Oh? Well, it was a copper. Nothing to worry about. They’ve identified that body you were on about, the one found at Cricket Farm. It’s one of Jake Westcott’s waitresses. They’re interviewing the regular customers.’

‘Did you kill her?’ his wife asked in that blasted casual way she’d developed lately; springing unexpected and awkward questions.

‘Of course not! Are you out of your mind? The cops don’t suspect me. It was just a routine call. Anyway, I wasn’t even here last week.’

‘That’s right,’ she said agreeably. ‘You’ve got an alibi.’

There was a silence. Harper scowled at his wife and glanced from the open dining-room door behind her to the open study door near him.

‘How much of that did you overhear?’ he asked cautiously.

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