Undercurrent (The Nameless Detective) - Plot & Excerpts
The book was the only thing missing, nothing else had been touched, and it seemed obvious the balding man—it had to have been him, all right—had used the cover of darkness to come over the hedge or gate into the cottage's private rear garden. Favor had dusted the sliding door and the nightstand with his kit, but there were no prints; the guy had wiped everything clean. Quartermain told him to get in touch with a local artist named Vance, who did portrait work for them from time to time, and to have him waiting at the station to work up a drawing; then we drove over to Bonificacio Drive to talk to Beverly Winestock.Neither of us expected any help from her—she was too fiercely loyal to her brother for one thing; and I had my doubts he would have told her where he was going tonight—but Quartermain had to talk to her anyway. At the moment, there was no one else he could talk to.Beverly answered the door fully dressed—and still cool, still distant. But her eyes contained a touch of fear, and there were strain lines etched at the corners of her mouth.
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