Hunting Shadows: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery (35 page)
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Authors: Charles Todd
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Thornton must have read something in his face, in spite of his effort to school his expression.
“Most of us need a way out,” he said with a nod, and walked to his front door. Opening it, he went inside, without looking back.
Rutledge, trying to ignore Hamish’s voice from the empty rear seat, turned the motorcar toward Wriston.
There was Constable McBride to see, and then one last night at Miss Bartram’s while he wrote his report for Inspector Warren and another for Acting Chief Superintendent Markham. A cleverly expurgated version, both of them. The MacLaren laid to rest in the mausoleum would have no connection with the man Lovat in Soham. It was not necessary to ruin more lives. Justice had been served.
He was nearly to Wriston when he noticed a bicycle approaching. As it got closer, he saw the lined face and long white hair of the scissors grinder, his satchel over his handlebars, his eyes tired.
Rutledge stopped and offered him a lift to wherever he was going.
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is the author of the Inspector Ian Rutledge mysteries,the Bess Crawford mysteries, and two stand-alone
novels. A mother-and-son writing team, they live in Delaware and North Carolina, respectively.
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This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
HUNTING SHADOWS.
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