Amendment of Life
“‘He was only reporting Margaret Collins missing, sir,’ said Detective Inspector Sloan fairly. ‘Nothing more.’ ‘That’s as may be,’ said Leeyes.
‘Quite so, sir,’ said Sloan. He forbore to remind the Superintendent that merely reporting anything was not yet a chargeable offence in anyone’s eyes but his. Not in England, anyway. He couldn’t answer for some police states.
‘You’d better take this,’ said Leeyes, waving a piece of paper in front of him. ‘You’ll need it.’ Sloan read over the written repo...rt of what David Collins had told the police about his wife’s disappearance.
Leeyes sniffed. ‘The man said he was going back to work and that they’d know where to find him if we wanted him.’ ‘They did know,’ said Sloan. ‘We wanted him to take a look at the body of this woman who’s been found in the maze at Aumerle Court.’ ‘No grounds to detain him on, of course,’ carried on the Superintendent, for whom it was axiomatic that all husbands were guilty of killing their deceased wives unless it could be demonstrated otherwise.MoreLess
‘Quite so, sir,’ said Sloan. He forbore to remind the Superintendent that merely reporting anything was not yet a chargeable offence in anyone’s eyes but his. Not in England, anyway. He couldn’t answer for some police states.
‘You’d better take this,’ said Leeyes, waving a piece of paper in front of him. ‘You’ll need it.’ Sloan read over the written repo...rt of what David Collins had told the police about his wife’s disappearance.
Leeyes sniffed. ‘The man said he was going back to work and that they’d know where to find him if we wanted him.’ ‘They did know,’ said Sloan. ‘We wanted him to take a look at the body of this woman who’s been found in the maze at Aumerle Court.’ ‘No grounds to detain him on, of course,’ carried on the Superintendent, for whom it was axiomatic that all husbands were guilty of killing their deceased wives unless it could be demonstrated otherwise.MoreLess
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