Death in Albert Park (1988)
“His ring was answered by Goggins himself who stared at him suspiciously. Carolus explained himself, wisely adding something to suggest that Goggins as a Vigilante and an observant man might have sources of information untapped by the police.
When he was first shown into the sitting-room, Carolus thought he had disturbed the couple at tea, for the pot was still standing there.
“Stone cold, I’m afraid,” said Ada Goggins. “We have tea at four. But have a cake.”
Carolus refused but Ada bit off more than half a cream bun and continued to munch happily. Carolus discovered that one meal in this house only really ended when another began, at least for the hostess. Goggins was smoking, appropriately, a meerschaum pipe.
“I don’t know whether there’s anything I can tell you,” he said ponderously.
“He was alone that evening,” said Ada Goggins, attacking an eclair.
“Which evening?” Carolus asked.
“The evening when Joyce was murdered. That’s what you want to see us about, isn’t it?”
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