Three Barbara Vine Mysteries by Ruth Rendell

Author:Ruth Rendell [Ruth Rendell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781504046244
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2017-09-19T00:00:00+00:00

16

When you think someone is listening to you he is probably only considering what to say next.

—A MAN OF THESSALY

JASON THAGUE HAD FOUND Robert Nuttall’s widow, Anne, living in the Cotswolds. Her husband had been a dentist in Oxford and they had retired to Chipping Campden.

“That makes me wonder about dentists,” Sarah said. “I mean the Candlesses’ dentist. They’d have had one.”

“I don’t think so. Most people didn’t have dentists in the thirties, not a dentist you go to for regular checkups. You went to a dentist to have a tooth out when you had a toothache. Anyway, I asked my nan, and she said her father had had all his teeth out and false ones for a twenty-first birthday present.”

“I don’t believe it!”

“That’s what I said. My nan’s got dentures now, has had all my lifetime. She never went near a dentist till she was seventeen and living in Sudbury, and that was, like I said, to have a tooth out.”

What would her father have thought of Jason’s pitted face and his voice and his accent? She said coldly, “So we’ve reached a dead end.”

“Don’t say that. There’s still the knife grinder and the chair mender. Is my check in the post?”

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