Tell Me Pretty Maiden by Rhys Bowen

Author:Rhys Bowen
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1999-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-THREE

“So what did we learn from that?” Daniel said as we came out of the building and started to walk back toward the center of town. “Not much, did we?”

“Only confirmation of what we had suspected,” I said. “He wouldn’t have robbed a friend’s house. He wouldn’t have shot anybody. He probably didn’t need money.”

“We now know he was planning to go to a theater,” Daniel said. “Too bad it’s Sunday. They’ll all be closed. We’ll have to come back again when they are operating.”

I frowned as we crossed the green. “If he was planning to take a girl to the theater, then why did he go to the Silvertons’ house? You don’t usually take a young lady to meet your pals. And what was he doing out of town with her late at night?”

“She may not have been entirely respectable,” Daniel said. “Not all young men have honorable intentions, you know.”

“But if he didn’t have honorable intentions, he wouldn’t have been interested in driving out into the countryside, would he? I’m sure the girl must have had a room in town.”

“You’re not supposed to know about such things,” Daniel said.

“Me? I’ve met my fair share of prostitutes, you know. Shared a jail cell with them once.”

Daniel just shook his head.

“Anyway, it doesn’t add up if he met the girl. On the other hand, if he was hoping to meet a girl and she jilted him or never turned up, he might have decided to drive out to visit a pal, just so that he didn’t have to go home early and lose face with his friends.”

“Possible.” Daniel nodded. “Either way the next step is to get ourselves out to the Silverton place and find out what really happened that night. I’d also like to hear the New Haven police’s side of the story, but I don’t know if I should speak to them, given my current circumstances.”

“I can speak to them,” I said.

Daniel snorted. “I hardly think they will divulge the key elements of their investigation to a private investigator.”

“Did you never think that I might wheedle it out of them with my feminine charms?”

“I think that highly unlikely. We’re trained to resist feminine charms.”

“You fell for mine,” I said with a satisfied little smile. “At the very moment when you were supposed to be prosecuting me.”

“Be that as it may, I think it may be better if I have a quiet word with one of my fellow officers in New York. He’ll be able to find out all the details of the case for me.”

“So how are we going to get out to the Silverton place?” I asked. “I understood it was on the road between New Haven and Bridgeport.”

“Go back to the station and see if there is a cab willing to take us that far.”

“I’m starving,” I said. “Don’t police officers ever eat?”

“Not when we’re on a case,” Daniel said. “But in deference to the weaker sex . . .”

“Fine. If you can hold out, so can I.

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