“Are you the police?”
“I am in plain clothes,” said Agatha jesuitically.
“I’m Tracey Forest. I ain’t had nuffink to do with it. He said the old crow was bleeding him dry. He hated her. He said he had to kill her.”
“Wait there, I’m calling the police,” said Agatha.
“I thought you was the police,” wailed Tracey.
“Sort of,” said Agatha.
“Do you have to arrest him? He was going to take me to Paris.”
Agatha sat drinking coffee with Jessica a week after the arrest of John Brand. The bells pounded out for the funeral of Mary.
“Hellish noise,” shouted Agatha.
Jessica grinned.
“Music to my ears, Agatha.”
THE END
Copyright Marion Chesney
Constable & Robinson Ltd.
55–56 Russell Square
London WC1B 4HP
www.constablerobinson.com
First published in the UK by C&R Crime,
an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd., 2013
Copyright © M. C. Beaton, 2013
The right of M. C. Beaton to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
All rights reserved. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or to actual events or locales is entirely coincidental.
A copy of the British Library Cataloguing in
Publication Data is available from the British Library
ISBN: 978-1-47210-943-9 (ebook)
Cover copyright © Constable & Robinson