The Day Of The Jack Russell (Mystery Man) - Plot & Excerpts
He agreed to these conditions, except for a variation on the last, by which I mean he sent his bodyguard down to get it. Nobody tried to assassinate him while he was gone. I said, ‘So these guys, did you kill them?’ ‘No, don’t be daft.’ ‘But the police think you did. What did they say?’ ‘They? Him. A DI Robinson. My solicitor says he’s a law unto himself. He says the other detectives have a nickname for him. They call him Mr Marple. He’s like a pernickety old woman. He said that when he entered there was blood everywhere, looked like a real slaughterhouse, but one thing that caught his eye was the computer, still switched on, with YouTube on the screen and paused on a video of my billboard being defaced. He said it didn’t take a genius to work out that the victims were responsible for the graffiti. I mean, Christ, that was enough to haul me in? If there’d been a video of Kylie Minogue on the screen, would they have lifted her?’ Billy shook his head. ‘I should be so lucky.’ ‘And that’s why they arrested you?’ Billy looked down at his coffee and added quietly, ‘Well, that and the fact that I did go round and visit them.’ ‘Okay.
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