Once Upon a Crime by Mona Marple

Author:Mona Marple [Marple, Mona]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-01-18T06:00:00+00:00

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“We need to call the police,” Coral said after Sandy had finished recounting what had just happened. “She was obviously going to try to kill you again.”

“We can’t tell the police,” Sandy said. “I’m safe here. I just need to be careful.”

“Just be careful? That’s your plan?”

“And I need to find proof.”

“The CCTV is proof!”

“No, the CCTV shows me entering and leaving Reginald’s house, and Elaine Peters walking past a few minutes later.”

“But it isn’t you.”

“Of course I’d say that,” Sandy said. “She’s trapped me.”

“I can’t believe you forgot the chips,” Coral said, attempting to lighten the mood. She nudged Sandy with her bony elbow, but her joke fell flat. “Hey, sis, come on, we’ll work something out.”

“Of course we will, we’re the Shaw Sisters.” Sandy said, forcing herself to act as if she meant her words. She didn’t want Coral to know how much it had unnerved her seeing Elaine standing on her doorstep in those garish stiletto shoes.

“If we can get through life with seaside names in a village nowhere near the sea, we can get through this.” Coral laughed.

“Do you remember the teasing?” Sandy asked.

“Of course I do. I remember one lad asking me if there was a third sister called Dolphin!”

“Dolphin? It was Octopus when I went to upper school.”

“To be fair, I think I know what the third daughter would have been called…”

“Mermaid!” They both said in unison, descending into wild laughter. Their parents had been hippies at heart, harboring dreams of life by the sea that they had never turned into reality.

“What do you think they’d make of all this?” Sandy asked,.

“Oh, that’s an easy one. They’d say a mind does its best thinking on a full stomach. Come on, let’s get those chips.”

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