Название: Gone in the Night
Автор: Mary-Jane Riley
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Приключения: прочее
isbn: 9780008340254
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‘You don’t like them.’
‘No shit, Sherlock. Look, leave it, Alex.’
Alex put down her coffee cup. ‘You think it’s one of them.’
‘I said, leave it.’
But Alex didn’t want to ‘leave it’. She decided to try another avenue. ‘So Boney knew about it. The wheelie bin thing, I mean.’
‘It would seem so.’
‘Do you know his real name?’
Cora smiled, a real smile that lit up her face and chased away the pasty edges. ‘Someone on the street told me once. Nigel.’
Alex raised an eyebrow. ‘Nigel?’
‘Nigel Bennet.’
Alex grinned. ‘He doesn’t look much like any Nigels I know.’ She fished her phone out of her bag. ‘Let’s see if Google knows who he is.’ Her fingers stabbed at the phone. ‘There are five Nigel Bennets on LinkedIn, but I can’t imagine his business would have a profile on there.’ She scrolled some more. ‘A few on Facebook. Unlikely too.’
‘He’s not really going to be on social media, is he?’ Cora sounded impatient.
‘No, not now maybe, though it’s always worth checking. He could be like one of those stupid people who post pictures of money and goods they’ve stolen. Now let’s see …’ She turned the phone round to Cora. ‘Look, there are a couple of Nigel Bennets in images. But I can’t tell if any of them are him. Especially without the—’ she gestured at her face.
Cora smiled. ‘You mean the piercings, the long lobes and the sharp teeth?’ She squinted at the screen. ‘Nor me. Too fuzzy. You’re not going to find him there. I wouldn’t bother, if I were you.’
Alex put her phone away. ‘You’re probably right.’
‘What do we do now?’
‘Now,’ said Alex, smearing some Colman’s mustard over her sausage roll before popping a piece into her mouth and deciding not to pursue the Nigel angle for the moment, ‘we report Rick missing – yes we will,’ she emphasized as she saw Cora about to interrupt. ‘He’s a vulnerable person and if he’s on the police radar then they’ll look out for him.’
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