The Chinese Egg (1975)
“There had been one serious mistake after another. If only he’d had more time, so that he might have set up a proper monitoring system to cover all Mrs. Wilmington’s movements, then he’d have got his ambush posted on site before those bastards arrived and he’d have copped the lot. If only she, Mrs. W., hadn’t lied to him when he tried to get her to tell him about a further ransom demand. If only—and he’d no one but himself to blame here—if only he’d believed those children and forced the truth o...ut of her. But a policeman’s natural scepticism and caution had obliged him to go round checking up and verifying. If only he hadn’t been thrown off the scent by finding no record on the monitored telephone line of any such conversation. That had brought back all his doubts about the children’s story. It was only late on Friday afternoon that he’d seen the possible significance of one of Thursday’s phoned messages: would Mrs. Wilmington ring a number, 148-394X at twelve o’clock midday.MoreLess
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