The Murder Game by M J Lee

Author:M J Lee
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781788630771
Publisher: Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Published: 2018-03-12T04:00:00+00:00

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She was strolling down the street in the peculiar way she always did; a proud walk, her handbag sitting in the crook of her right arm and her left swinging in time like a soldier.

He knew Miss Cavendish would take this way home. She always took this way. Walking for five minutes to the stop outside Lester Hospital, and taking the tram to Chekiang Road. A short walk down the plane tree-lined street and she was home, waiting to be greeted by her mother, gin and tonic in hand.

Every day the same way. So predictable. So English.

He popped a sweet in his mouth. French violets. How he loved the way the delicacy melted on his tongue without his having to bite into it. He had developed a taste for them during the war, waiting in the trenches, time and the innumerable possibilities for death stretching before him.

The taste flooded his mouth, reminding him of the war, and the sweet possibility of death.

He had survived; thousands hadn’t. Even more, he had survived with a mission; to rid the world of those who had transgressed the rules of the gods.

It was out there, in no man’s land, that the gods had first spoken to him, whispered in his ear, preparing him for his mission. Here in Shanghai, their voices had become stronger, more compelling, more urgent. The time was now, they told him; there were so many transgressors here, so many ready to be punished. Here was Sodom and Gomorrah and he was to cleanse the city of its evil.

He had begun his work, begun his mission to exorcise this world, removing those who transgressed against the laws of Yama, against the laws of the gods.

But then Danilov had stepped in and stopped him. Just when he was getting stronger. Just when people were beginning to take notice. Just when the gods were seeing the righteousness of his cause. Just when justice was being served on those who had escaped justice.

But he was ready now. All he had to do was remove Danilov and he could begin again. The inspector represented everything that was evil in Shanghai; a man who had abandoned his family.

Such men must be punished.

He focused on the present once more. Must keep in the present. She was closer now.

But today she wouldn’t reach her home. Her mother would wait in vain for her, the ice melting in the glass. She would have to ask the boy to make a fresh one. Oh, the waste, she would think.

She was passing him now, head held high, arm swinging.

He gave the signal.

His men, his dogs of war, leapt out and grabbed her from behind, swiftly placing the formaldehyde pad over her mouth. They were good at their work, his men, trained by the Green Gang since they were young. He paid them well now, too well. They would soon be demanding more money. He would have to get rid of them and hire more. Thugs were two a penny in Shanghai.

Her limp body was placed in the back of the van.

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