Crowned And Dangerous (A Royal Spyness Mystery)
“Zou Zou and I are brilliant! I think I might actually like her.
We stared at each other, digesting this news. It was Darcy who voiced the conclusion we had all come to. “But if he was terminally ill, why might this doctor—if indeed he was the murderer—bother to kill him?”
“Perhaps he had decided to change his will and one of his relatives in the States decided to kill him before he could do so,” Zou Zou suggested.
“That’s one thing we haven’t done,” I said. “Asked the local postman if any letters had come from America recently. It’s my experience of village postmen that they are terribly nosy and he might well remember where the letters came from.”
“Good idea,” Darcy said. “We should follow up on that. Of course, we have no way of knowing what telephone calls he received.”
“The exchange would know,” I said. “I wonder if the local police followed up on that, or if we’d be allowed to do so.”
“Now that they know Roach was traveling on a false passport I think they will have to start ...a proper investigation,”MoreLess
We stared at each other, digesting this news. It was Darcy who voiced the conclusion we had all come to. “But if he was terminally ill, why might this doctor—if indeed he was the murderer—bother to kill him?”
“Perhaps he had decided to change his will and one of his relatives in the States decided to kill him before he could do so,” Zou Zou suggested.
“That’s one thing we haven’t done,” I said. “Asked the local postman if any letters had come from America recently. It’s my experience of village postmen that they are terribly nosy and he might well remember where the letters came from.”
“Good idea,” Darcy said. “We should follow up on that. Of course, we have no way of knowing what telephone calls he received.”
“The exchange would know,” I said. “I wonder if the local police followed up on that, or if we’d be allowed to do so.”
“Now that they know Roach was traveling on a false passport I think they will have to start ...a proper investigation,”MoreLess
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