The Satchel by GR Jordan

Author:GR Jordan [Jordan, GR]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Crime Mystery/Thriller
Publisher: Carpetless Publishing
Published: 2021-03-19T13:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Macleod carefully watched the woman across from him. She was showing signs of distress, her eyes red with the tears that had been cried. There was also an attempt to give a proper bearing, aware that the police world was watching her. Macleod had been there ten minutes and already, he wondered how many people had come to visit. Surely it was normal when someone was deceased that friends would pop round. Would the police car be keeping them away? He doubted it. Was there something more sinister in the mix that many people didn’t come and look?

Anne Green cut a forlorn and lonely figure, and Macleod wondered what the best way was to approach this. Was this a woman that knew of her husband’s far right activities, or would it come as a shock? The humanitarian in him would not want to put someone who was ignorant of such activities under the extreme pressure of realising that her husband was not who she thought he was. The policeman felt putting her on the rack was the best way to find out for sure whether she was involved.

‘Do you have any relatives, Mrs Green?’ asked Macleod. He knew she didn’t but wanted to get the woman on a footing where she thought he knew truly little, and he also wanted to gauge her reaction to questions he knew the answer to. Part of the job was always a guessing game, taking a look at the person in front of him, how their features changed, whether their shoulders adjusted. You had to look at their traits and come to the decision about whether they were lying. It was not evidence, but it usually gave you a steer in the right direction.

‘No, Inspector, no brother or sister.’

‘Are there any other relatives? Other people you can call on? I’ve just noticed that it’s rather quiet around here at the moment and you could probably do with some support other than ourselves.’

‘I’m on my own,’ said Anne. ‘Parents have gone. There’ll be some people to come around and some girlfriends, but in honesty, they probably don’t want to come near me while they’re seeing police cars outside.’

‘Why is that?’ asked Macleod.

‘Well, a few of their husbands are not totally on the correct side of the law.’

Macleod nodded. He wondered how far to take his next question. ‘How did you get to know these girlfriends? Are they couples you met with Ryan, or are they just because you had met them on your own?’

‘Oh, it’s mostly with Ryan I met them,’ said Anne. ‘He was always the businessman, the one out in the boat. I’d be on his arm when he was making contacts. Then, we’d go to dinner parties, we’d go to people’s houses and I find that there’s a number of them, a number of the girls just like me. We get together every now and again, drink some wine, try to laugh. You must think me quite lonely, Inspector?’

‘Quite what I think doesn’t come into it.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.