An Empty Death
“It was his own fault - he’d been an idiot to tell her that she’d only have to make a statement. Fay clearly felt betrayed, and he couldn’t blame her. The fact that she’d accepted it all, and allowed herself to be led away by Miss Harris without fuss just made it worse. He stood in the lobby of West End Central, rubbing his eyes in a futile attempt to erase the image of her reproachful face, and decided that it was time to call it a day before he cocked up anything else - not that home was much ...of a prospect with that bloody woman mooning about the place. He’d said goodnight to the desk sergeant and had just walked out of the door when Ballard appeared on the steps, breathless and waving a piece of paper.
‘Thank goodness I’ve caught you, sir. It’s about Dacre. I managed to get hold of someone at St Andrews. A James Walter Dacre did train there, and he graduated in 1938, but’ - Ballard’s eyes gleamed with excitement - ‘he died in thirty-nine.MoreLess
‘Thank goodness I’ve caught you, sir. It’s about Dacre. I managed to get hold of someone at St Andrews. A James Walter Dacre did train there, and he graduated in 1938, but’ - Ballard’s eyes gleamed with excitement - ‘he died in thirty-nine.MoreLess
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