Never More Than Twice by Claudio Ruggeri

Author:Claudio Ruggeri [Ruggeri, Claudio]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Babelcube Inc.
Published: 2016-09-11T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

The next morning Vincent Germano went to the office early, hoping that by having another look at the particulars of the investigation, he would have figured out a little more.

No sooner had he sat down at his desk than he heard someone knock on the door.

Inspector Parisi had gotten to the office even before the chief himself, intending to analyze some phone records extremely carefully.

“Hi Vincent.”

“Hi Angelo, you too bright and early huh ...”

“You know it.”

“What have you got there?”

“Nothing, I was having a look at some phone printouts of that Andrea Grassetti, the brother of the woman who committed suicide ...”

“Find anything interesting?”

“Interesting not much, but something unusual, yes.”

“Explain yourself better.”

“The night that his brother-in-law, Ferdinando Rocca, went on to his just reward, Grassetti received a call a few minutes after midnight from the switchboard at the morgue, the one in Rome.”

“The morgue huh ...”

“Yep, exactly, the conversation lasted a couple of minutes.”

“Where was Grassetti when he got the call?”

“In Rome, near the Colosseum, more than that I can’t tell you because he then turned off his cellphone.”

“Angelo, to your knowledge do all the staff at the morgue do shifts? Or are the administrators exempt from that?”

“I seem to remember that the employees go home at six in the evening, once for an identification ...”

“Great, okay, do you have the number?”

“Wait a second.”

After rummaging through his agenda for a few moments, inspector Parisi finally found the index and went to the letter ‘M’.

He wrote the number on a sheet of paper and passed it to Germano.

“Hello.”

“Hello, I’m a chief of police, am I speaking with the morgue?”

“Exactly, that’s us.”

“Well, I need to speak with the personnel manager, can you pass him to me?”

“Certainly, sir, please hold.”

The wait in question lasted for more than two minutes before a voice on the other end of the line spoke up.

“Hello my name Trinca, with whom am I speaking?”

“Good morning Trinca, my name is Vincent Germano, I’m from the police. I’m calling because I would like to have a chat with you this afternoon, until what time will you be in your office?”

“Today I’ll be here until 7:00 pm. When would you prefer to come?”

“I’ll be there at 5:00 pm, I have a couple of things to take care of and I doubt if I’ll make it any earlier.”

“Ok chief, until then.”

“Thanks for the courtesy, I’ll see you later.”

Throughout the conversation inspector Parisi had not stopped for a moment wondering what the hell Germano was trying to find out from the morgue personnel manager, but knowing him he knew that he would soon find out.

The chief hung up and put all the photocopies of the documents concerning the death of Ferdinando Rocca into a folder; those papers would certainly turn out to be helpful that afternoon.

“Excuse me, Vincent ...”

“What is it, Angelo”

“Shall I continue analyzing this phone data, or is it better that I take care of something else?”

“Continue, continue, let me know if by any chance you notice anything strange and .

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