Rite To Silence: London Calling Private Investigator Crime Thriller Series Book 1 by Carter Solomon

Author:Carter, Solomon [Carter, Solomon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Great Leap
Published: 2017-03-08T23:00:00+00:00

Twenty

The Listeners

Since Parker had been rushed to hospital, Dan had endured twenty-four hours of medical monotony and stress. The Atkins case had to go on the backburner – as far as Dan was concerned at least – but it had affected Eva too. A day had been lost, but thoughts about the Atkins case still plagued him. As he sat at Parker’s bedside and listened in to the medical conversations, Dan thought about the Strongforth Social Club, the quill and ink ornament, and the grisly way Atkins had been killed. The kid’s assertion that Alan Merrick was the murderer still echoed in his head. Dan liked the idea – Merrick looked a deeply unpleasant man and he was a philanderer too. It fitted and yet Dan was not convinced. And Mark had Georgina Oldham as the next target? No. She hardly fitted the bill at all. As far as Dan knew Masonic lodges were men only affairs, apart from the social activities lodges used to busy the wives and partners. Of course, The Ravagers were not Freemasons. But as an extreme vein of Masonic tradition, he couldn’t believe The Ravagers would be liberal-leaning bra burners when it came to women if the general Masonic order were not. And if The Ravagers did not include women in their ranks how would it be possible for a woman to have broken their rules to deserve such punishment? Supposing The Ravagers no longer existed, but their traditions had been modelled by the killer – why would the killer flout the traditions he was copying to kill a woman? People always left patterns in their wake – and breaking this old pattern simply didn’t make sense. Dan turned the idea over and over in his head but the result stayed the same. The kid had to have it wrong.

After another early morning visit to Jonathan Parker, with faint colour returning to the old man’s face, Dan tried to bleed some more medical information from the nurse attending to him. “You’re not family are you?” said the nurse, and waited for Dan to shake his head.

“Next of kin?”

“No,” he said.

“Then I’m afraid I can’t help you. But don’t worry. Mr Parker will live through this.”

The news came as some kind of relief. Dan didn’t think he was ready for any more deaths than he’d already dealt with lately. When the ambulance had rushed the old man inside the hospital, Dan had expected the old man to succumb to the cancer he’d hadn’t named during their conversation in Old Leigh. But as he left the hospital Dan realised he hadn’t heard the doctors and nurses mention cancer in a whole twenty-four hours. At least not near his ears. He had heard talk of a stroke, signs of a heart condition too, but cancer wasn’t even mentioned. He was sure of it. In terms of the immediate threat to the old man’s life, he supposed the cancer was way down the list. The human body was an

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