No Human Enemy (Suzie Mountford Mysteries) - Plot & Excerpts
Urgently. Worse, the nuns seemed to be blessed with second sight. As she was organising transport – Tommy had to be at the Yard all day, ‘Dealing with bloody Berry,’ he said ominously – when Billy Mulligan came on the line. ‘Message for you, ma’am.’ The ‘ma’am’ sounded heavily laced with friendly insolence: Billy always thought of Suzie as a kind of superannuated schoolgirl – at least that’s what Suzie thought. ‘It’s them nuns…’ Billy said. ‘Yeees?’ ‘Nun called Monica. Was in hospital after that doodlebug at the convinct. Wants a word.’ ‘She’s out of hospital then?’ She was sure he was taking the mickey. ‘So it would seem, ma’am.’ ‘Tell them I’ll be in today. The chief’s okayed Brian to drive me and I’d like to take Shirley.’ Billy said Brian and Shirley would pick her up in half an hour. Tommy was making his own way in, but his parting shot was that she’d better remember the other parson – ‘The one out near Bedford Park.
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