Murder in New York: A totally unputdownable historical English cozy murder mystery (A Miss Underhay Mystery Book 18) by Helena Dixon

Author:Helena Dixon [Dixon, Helena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2024-11-25T00:00:00+00:00

Kitty tidied up the flat while Matt and Edgar were gone. She hoped they might get some information from Mortimer when he arrived. Although if he was too inebriated, she didn’t hold out much hope of success.

The men had not been gone long when the doorbell buzzed. Kitty hurried to answer, hoping it might be the lieutenant so she could at least give him the items she had discovered in Peggy’s handbag.

Instead, as she peeped out through the spyhole, she saw Lorena Briggs tapping her toes impatiently on the mat.

‘Lorena, what a surprise. Do come in.’ Kitty opened the door and stood aside as the other woman swept past her with a swish of expensive fur and perfume.

‘I’m afraid my father has had to go out for a short time. Is there anything I can help you with?’ Kitty offered as she followed Lorena into the drawing room. ‘May I get you some coffee or tea?’

Lorena took off her coat and handed it to Kitty as if she were the maid. ‘A coffee would be very welcome.’

Kitty raised her eyebrows at this offhand treatment but hung up the coat and went to put on the kettle.

‘Will your father be long?’ Lorena asked as Kitty re-entered the room.

‘No, I don’t think so.’ Kitty wondered what the woman wanted with her father. ‘I’m so very sorry about the loss of your mother.’

Lorena bowed her head in acknowledgement of Kitty’s condolences. ‘It has been the most ghastly time. The police told me that you and your husband found her.’

‘We did. We were on our way to get breakfast. It was awful,’ Kitty said, before going to take the kettle from the hob to make a pot of coffee.

‘I can imagine,’ Lorena continued when Kitty returned a minute or two later with a tray. ‘We still haven’t discovered what became of her jewellery, you know. Everything was missing, her engagement and wedding rings even, and a dress ring my father gave her just before he died.’ Lorena took a cigarette from a silver case and inserted it in a small, carved ivory holder. She offered the case to Kitty, who declined politely with a shake of her head.

‘Her jewels were missing when we found her,’ Kitty said as Lorena lit her cigarette and blew a small plume of smoke into the air.

‘We hoped she’d taken them off and put them in her safe or that they were somewhere in the apartment, but there’s no sign of them anywhere. We searched the apartment from top to bottom. The police have notified all of the jewellery stores,’ Lorena said.

Kitty poured coffee for both of them. ‘Oh dear, that’s terrible. I do hope you get them back.’

‘When all of that business about Peggy came out, I thought that perhaps she had taken them.’ Lorena tapped some ash from the end of her cigarette into the glass Lalique ashtray that Kitty had placed next to her. ‘You’ve heard about the business with her pawning my mom’s silver, I suppose?’

‘Yes, that was another dreadful shock.

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