Face to Face (2013)
““Oh, that.” Burke seemed abstracted. “I didn’t want to mention it before I checked it out with your old man—” he smiled briefly “—I’m in a strange country, remember, and one should learn the protocol of the natives. But he says it’s all right.”
The Scotsman squirmed back in the cab. “It has to do with the case that brought me here in the first place. Miss—Mrs. Armando’s original request to the Yard was to ask if they would find a certain girl, a niece of hers, Lorette Spanier. Since it wasn’t e...ither a criminal or a missing-persons case, simply a question of locating a relative whose whereabouts she didn’t know, the Yard had no jurisdiction and Commissioner Vail recommended me for the job, as I told you. I made the financial arrangements with Miss Guild—damn it all, I cannot think of her as Mrs. Armando!—with a transatlantic phone call, and went to work.”
The background for his search, Burke explained, had been ordinary enough. Glory’s family back in Minnesota were dead; her sole surviving relative, a younger sister, had married a British dairy farmer and gone to live in England.MoreLess
The Scotsman squirmed back in the cab. “It has to do with the case that brought me here in the first place. Miss—Mrs. Armando’s original request to the Yard was to ask if they would find a certain girl, a niece of hers, Lorette Spanier. Since it wasn’t e...ither a criminal or a missing-persons case, simply a question of locating a relative whose whereabouts she didn’t know, the Yard had no jurisdiction and Commissioner Vail recommended me for the job, as I told you. I made the financial arrangements with Miss Guild—damn it all, I cannot think of her as Mrs. Armando!—with a transatlantic phone call, and went to work.”
The background for his search, Burke explained, had been ordinary enough. Glory’s family back in Minnesota were dead; her sole surviving relative, a younger sister, had married a British dairy farmer and gone to live in England.MoreLess
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