An Act of Kindness: a Hakim And Arnold Mystery (Hakim & Arnold Mystery 2)
“It was only when Wilf Cox came into the Boleyn just before midday that Lee realised the geezer was Wilf’s cousin, Arthur. The last thing that Wilf had told him about Arthur was that he was in hospital with cancer. Lee had thought he was dead.
Lee, nodding at Arthur, said to Wilf, ‘I thought he was …’ ‘In remission,’ Wilf said, and put a silencing finger up to his lips.
It was a slow, wet Sunday in the Boleyn and Lee had spent much of the morning reading the papers. Then Arthur had come in, his ...wheelchair pushed by a woman of about fifty. Then Wilf had joined them. Now he asked Lee to come over and ‘make a party of it’ and so he did. The woman, it turned out, was Arthur’s daughter, Ella.
It was Wilf who brought up the subject of Lily Smith. ‘Here, you knew Eric Smith’s mum, Lily, didn’t you, Art? Strone Road, and all that business with that missing kid back in the Fifties?’ Although Lee hadn’t forgotten the mezuzah that had come from the house where the Smiths had once lived on Strone Road, or the little picture of the woman that Nasreen Khan had found behind it, it hadn’t been at the forefront of his mind for some time.MoreLess
Lee, nodding at Arthur, said to Wilf, ‘I thought he was …’ ‘In remission,’ Wilf said, and put a silencing finger up to his lips.
It was a slow, wet Sunday in the Boleyn and Lee had spent much of the morning reading the papers. Then Arthur had come in, his ...wheelchair pushed by a woman of about fifty. Then Wilf had joined them. Now he asked Lee to come over and ‘make a party of it’ and so he did. The woman, it turned out, was Arthur’s daughter, Ella.
It was Wilf who brought up the subject of Lily Smith. ‘Here, you knew Eric Smith’s mum, Lily, didn’t you, Art? Strone Road, and all that business with that missing kid back in the Fifties?’ Although Lee hadn’t forgotten the mezuzah that had come from the house where the Smiths had once lived on Strone Road, or the little picture of the woman that Nasreen Khan had found behind it, it hadn’t been at the forefront of his mind for some time.MoreLess
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