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Authors: M.C. Beaton
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‘Yes, please.’ Hamish eased himself into the kitchen, and then blinked in surprise. He had never seen the Brodies’ kitchen look so clean. Angela bubbled over with enthusiasm as she told him of Trixie’s help.
‘Was that your chair she was carrying?’ asked Hamish.
‘Yes, the poor things have very little furniture. They want to start a bed-and-breakfast place. It was just a tatty old thing of my grandmother’s.’
Hamish thought quickly. Someone setting up a bed-and-breakfast establishment usually wanted old serviceable stuff. He wondered uneasily whether the chair was valuable. But he did not know anything about antiques.
Flies buzzed about the kitchen.
‘I should have kept the door shut,’ said Angela. ‘Wretched flies.’
‘You’ve got a spray there,’ pointed out Hamish.
‘These sprays make holes in the ozone layer,’ said Angela.
‘I suppose so. But it’s hard to think of the environment when you haff the kitchen full of the beasties,’ said Hamish whose Highland voice became more sibilant when he was upset, and somehow he felt that that remark about the ozone layer originally came from Trixie. And yet Trixie was right, so why should he feel so resentful?
After some gossip, Hamish got up and left. A thin drizzle was falling. The sky was weeping over the loch, but the air was warm and clammy.
And then he saw a Volvo parked at the side of the police station and Priscilla just getting out of it. He broke into a run.
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First published in the USA 1988 by St Martin’s Press 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010
This edition published by Robinson, an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd 2008
Copyright © 1988, 2008 M. C. Beaton
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.
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ISBN : 978–1–78033–204–8
