A Particular Eye For Villainy: (Inspector Ben Ross 4) - Plot & Excerpts
During my journey I wondered how I’d know him. As it turned out I could hardly have missed him, as he was bigger than anyone else there. He had spotted and identified me almost before I had both feet on the platform, and bore down on me. ‘You’ll be the chap from London!’ he boomed, gripping my hand. ‘Ross, isn’t it?’ ‘Yes,’ I gasped, easing my fingers free. ‘You’re Inspector Barnes?’ ‘That’s me, all right. Now, before anything else, what do you think of our station?’ He waved a massive paw at our surroundings. ‘We’re very proud of it, y’know. It’s not been open long, only six year. Before that, trains fetched up at the old Brunswick Station and that weren’t much more than a garden shed compared to this. You’ve got the one bag, have you?’ He was shepherding me briskly through the crowd as we spoke. I managed to say the place seemed very busy. ‘A lot of folk come here to Harrogate,’ he informed me. ‘That’s why we needed a new station. It’s on account of the mineral springs.
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