Death At The Jesus Hospital (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
Colonel Arbuthnot was coming his way. He was small, about five feet eight inches tall, with a handlebar moustache and a Roman nose. He fiddled constantly with a white rose in his buttonhole, as if he was on his way to a wedding. Powerscourt stepped out of the shadows into the middle of the road. ‘Good morning, Colonel,’ he said cheerfully, ‘and what brings you to Marlow today?’ Arbuthnot looked at him carefully. ‘Ah, Powerscourt,’ he replied. ‘I’d heard you were involved in this matter.’ What on earth, Powerscourt said to himself, was a senior British intelligence officer doing at the Jesus Hospital? It didn’t make sense. ‘I am indeed,’ he replied, ‘and what, pray, has the death in the almshouse got to do with you or with your department?’ ‘I don’t feel obliged to answer any of your questions, Powerscourt. This is a matter of state security. You, of all people, know the rules.’ Powerscourt remembered that these people made Trappist monks seem talkative.
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