Murder Among Thieves (C.I.D Room Book 3) by Jeffries Roderic

Author:Jeffries, Roderic [Jeffries, Roderic]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Endeavour Press
Published: 2016-10-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Fusil detailed Braddon to go out to Ribstowe immediately and investigate the reported disappearance of a young girl — the mother had been anguished, but Fusil was a cynic and he suggested to Braddon that the explanation of the girl’s five-hour disappearance with a boy might not be of the tragic nature the mother believed.

There was a knock on the door and Rowan, looking like the wrath of God, entered, walked silently over to the desk, and put a square of paper on it. Fusil picked up the printed notice that Rowan had just brought back from Miss Railton and he momentarily thought with sharp irritation that it was time Rowan discovered once and for all whether his wife was two-timing him so that he could cheer up or commit suicide. Fusil picked up a ruler, only to discover it did not record sixteenths of an inch. He sent Rowan off to find one that did and began to tap impatiently with his fingers on the desk.

“I’ll get over to Ribstowe,” said Braddon.

Fusil jerked his mind back to the other case. It was ten past seven, which left something over two hours to sunset. The girl had said she and her boyfriend were going to visit her aunt, but a chance and unexpected visit by the mother to the aunt had revealed no daughter. “See the mother and the aunt, have a walk over the common, try the boy’s house. If you can’t find them inside the hour, organise a full search.”

Braddon left.

Pray God, thought Fusil, that his cynicism was warranted and the kids had disappeared only in order to learn more about the birds and the bees. No police job was more heart-breaking, more emotionally agonising, than looking for kids who might have become the victim of a sex maniac. Four years ago he had taken part in a search which had not found the eight-year-old girl until too late. The horror of the scene there was still fresh. People could stand up in Parliament and talk their heads off about abolition of capital punishment, the Gospels, the sanctity of life, the degradation of the death sentence, but anyone who had gazed down on the battered, mutilated body of an eight-year-old child and who had looked into the whirlpool of horror in the mother’s eyes knew that there was only one way of treating the man responsible.

Rowan returned with a ruler. Fusil’s mind again switched cases and he used the ruler to measure the longer of the two sides of the printed card. Its length was four and fifteen sixteenths inches. This might not be sufficient proof for a court of law, but it was proof enough for him.

He telephoned Kywood and said it was now certain Glenton had taken part in the robbery and murders. Kywood peevishly demanded why it had taken so long to discover this? Fusil then made a second call to the metropolitan police and asked for the county liaison officer. The inspector had gone, but Fusil was given the other’s home telephone number.

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