Weekends Can Be Murder by Arlene F. Marks

Author:Arlene F. Marks [Marks, Arlene F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: mystery, murder, theatre, theater, dinner, acting, actors, play, books, novels, firefighter, woman, girl, female, man, club, crime, read, readers, reading, paranormal, haunted, house, victorian, possessed, convention, conference, gathering, group
ISBN: 9781928011842
Publisher: Brain Lag
Published: 2022-11-11T05:00:00+00:00

Fourteen

“Mr. Baker tells me the police have been slightly delayed,” Hugh announced. “We have about ninety minutes to pool what we know about the other crimes and decide how best to present our information when the PPS arrives. Everyone on the island is going to be questioned, including us.

“You’ve seen how hard it has been for us to separate fact from fiction, and we’ve been here all along. They’ll be coming in from outside, with no prior knowledge of the game we just played. A game that Antony Court purposely seeded with truths, allowing us to secretly investigate the real-life crimes.”

“What do you want us to do, pet?” Liz asked.

“We’ll need to be crystal clear about the difference between what we know beyond a doubt and what we’ve deduced or surmised, based on hearsay and circumstances.”

“…which is just a fancy way of saying that we need to get our stories straight before the cops get here,” Larry put in, his patience fraying.

An uncomfortable silence dropped over the room.

Liz was the first to break it. “It doesn’t sound good when you say it like that.”

“However, it’s an accurate rendering,” her husband admitted. “I’m open to better suggestions, Mr. Holmes. What would you have us do?”

“As a group? Nothing. We solved the imaginary murder of Gareth Wylde by asking questions and piecing information together. Now our game is over, and the PPS’s is about to begin. So I think we should stand down and let them solve their murder the same way as we solved ours, but with access to more resources and much better technology.”

“What about Farley?” Selena asked.

“At the moment, he seems to be in hiding,” Hugh told her, “most likely abetted by the person you and Liz overheard him speaking with earlier. And I have to say, I’m inclined to agree with Mr. Holmes’s assessment of our situation. Not to mention that the police will have been travelling all night and will probably be more than a little irritable when they finally arrive.

“Therefore, I move that we take a break, wait for the police⁠—keeping an eye out for Farley, of course—then cooperate fully with them, sharing everything we know. They’ll have the wherewithal to follow up any solid leads we can give them, and the training and authority to make arrests. We don’t have any of those.”

“I second the motion,” said Selena.

“All in favour?”

Hands went up.

“Carried,” Hugh declared. Addressing his wife, he added, “After you, my dear.”

Larry hung back, watching the others leave the room. Warfield had been right earlier. This type of role-play game had never been his idea of amusement. Although the Crime Clubbers had tried to make him feel as though he was part of the group, he was always going to be an outsider. A skeptic. Selena’s plus-one.

“Would you like to talk?” she said, plopping herself down on the chair beside him.

He glanced up, startled. “About what?”

“About whatever’s going to be preying on your mind now that you’re not too busy to think about it.” When their eyes met, hers were filled with sympathy.

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