Maxwell’s Match
“Mark West was tetchier than usual, out of ciggies and out leads. It was briefing time at Selborne and team crowded around him, wreathed in smoke and hoping for something, anything, from the guv’nor. It was always the same ten days into murder enquiry. Everybody’d tried the obvious. The house-to-house on Tim Robinson elicited almost nothing. He’d shopped at local Asda, had his bike fixed by the local bike dealer. He probably went to the local cinema and the local library, but nobody remembered t...hat. They tried the pubs, did Mark West’s foot-sore coppers, in an attempt to resolve the dilemma over the drink question. A teetotaller with booze in the house. Kept for friends? If so, who? Did he go drinking with them, even if he was sitting at the bar sipping sarsaparilla with a dash of cherry? In the event, nothing. The morgue photo wasn’t horrific, but it was clearly of a dead man who didn’t look his best.
‘Course, I wouldn’t have seen him with his eyes shut,’ was the banal, if predictable, response from many a landlord in Petersfield.MoreLess
‘Course, I wouldn’t have seen him with his eyes shut,’ was the banal, if predictable, response from many a landlord in Petersfield.MoreLess
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