Evan Can Wait: A Constable Evans Mystery (2001) - Plot & Excerpts
“You helped build those sheds, didn’t you?” she asked me out of the blue one day, a week or so later. I’d met her down in Llandudno and we went to the pictures. Joan Fontaine in Suspicion was playing, and Joan Fontaine was one of her favorites, right up there with Ginger and Betty and Carole Lombard. But the B movie was really bad. A stupid cops and robbers. “What sheds?” I whispered back. She dug me in the side. “You know, the ones for the pictures.” “You know I did. I told you.” Someone behind leaned forward and made shushing noises. Ginger grinned at me. She leaned against me, nestling her lips against my cheek, as if to give me a kiss. “You know what I was thinking,” she whispered. “I was thinking that someone who put them together would know how to take them apart again.” “It was a good picture, wasn’t it?” I said as I walked her back to the hostel where she was living. “I suppose so. I was thinking of other good pictures.
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