The Phantom of Barker Mill: A Great British Crime Comedy mystery: Blue Moon Investigations Book 2 by Steve Higgs

Author:Steve Higgs [Higgs, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-12-11T08:00:00+00:00

Trouble at Mill. Monday, 11th October 1950hrs

Rather than take my car, which only had two seats, I had arranged for Big Ben to pick me up. We then collected Frank and Poison as they lived quite close to one another and headed to Dartford with a car full.

Big Ben and I were wearing our usual outfit for such activities which was an all-black set of combat-style fatigues with black combat boots, black, fingerless gloves with Kevlar knuckles and a vest that had Kevlar plates in and pockets to the front in which useful items went. I had instructed everyone else to wear black as we wanted to merge into the shadows and be invisible. In a bid to make sure they did, I had made it sound like we were carrying out a daring raid inside enemy lines. I had told Frank to come dressed as Batman, then, after I had put down the phone, realised my mistake and fretted for the next two hours that he might do exactly as instructed.

Luckily, he had not taken my instruction literally so was wearing hues of black and grey - a hoody over a Black Sabbath t-shirt. Poison, the athletic little minx that she was, had on sports gear. It was all black including her trainers, but as was often her way, her midriff was showing. I acknowledged that her stomach was a flat, wondrous canvass that ought to be displayed, but it would reflect any light and reveal her position. I elected to not worry too much about it.

On the way there, I had regaled the car occupants with what I had learned about the Phantom so far.

‘So, the Phantom is Owen Larkin?’ asked Big Ben in confirmation. ‘Why don’t we just have Amanda arrest him at his house?’

‘Because if we catch him in the act it will be very hard for him to deny his guilt. Currently, all we have is my testimony that I heard Owen and Brett Barker talking about the Phantom. If it went to court, any decent lawyer would rip the case apart and I always try to present the client with a watertight solution.'

‘But isn’t the client in this case also the man behind it all?’ asked Poison.

‘Well, I admit I am a little confused by Brett Barker’s move to hire me to solve the Phantom’s identity if he is the one pulling his strings. I think the answer to the why of that will be solved this evening if we catch Owen.’

The forming up point I had chosen was the car park of a large national supermarket chain. It was situated on the other side of the road from the Mill so provided a good field of vision to the front gate. The overhead lights of the carpark provided illumination for the shoppers going to and from their cars and held back the inky gloom in every parking space and trolley park save for the corner that I had chosen to gather in. Here, two broken lights close together gave us the shadows I wanted.

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