[MaC] A pause in the music

[Jade]

--- Margaret Dean <margdean at erols.com> wrote:

> Mel Mason wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > Marion had come up next to him and looked almost
> as
> > > white-faced
> > > as he did, though this was not the first murder
> > > scene she had
> > > ever viewed.
> > >
> > > "But how could he..." she whispered, "...sit
> here
> > > playing ... and not see it, till now?"
> > >
> > 
> > "In the dark, you mean?" asked Tabitha, appearing
> in
> > the doorway. "I should imagine it would be more
> > difficult to see it than not. He was probably
> paying
> > more attention to his music than his surroundings,
> > anyway." She moved towards the settee, where Lady
> > Pamela was attempting to find a pulse, and looked
> at
> > Nola Diamond with the detached expression of
> someone
> > who had seen far too many dead bodies in her life.
> > 
> > "Yes," said Oswald, "that would work if she was
> strangled before he came
> > here and started playing.  But she wasn't.  I
> remembered her saying
> > something rude about Fitzroy after Barowenski had
> left the room."
> > 
> > Phillip, swirling his half-filled glass absently,
> stared at the body,
> > though he was careful not to touch anything. "It
> looks--" His voice
> > rasped; he cleared his throat and began again,
> looking slightly abashed.
> > "It looks as though she was strangled *with*
> something, not bare-handed.
> > Does anyone see anything here that might have been
> the, er, murder
> > weapon?" He looked around the room as if uncertain
> of what he was
> > searching for, then his gaze fell on the piano.
> "Piano wire, perhaps?"
> > 
> > "It can't have been that," Marion said almost too
> quickly.  "He
> > was playing ... surely he would have noticed
> sooner if one was
> > missing?"
> > 
> > "I suppose...unless there were spares kept
> somewhere? I don't know if
> > that's the sort of thing one keeps..."
> > 
> > "I doubt if the average home player does," said
> Oswald thoughtfully. 
> > "But a professional pianist ... that would be a
> different matter, I
> > would think. We'll have to ask Barowenski."
> > 
> > He frowned.  "Someone needs to question him - two
> people for preference.
> > And someone needs to go down and inform the
> wardens and the UXB team what
> > has happened here."
> 
> "I'll help with the questioning," Marion
> volunteered.  "I have
> experience with interviewing people, after all."
> 
> Then she added, grim-faced, "And we might want to
> check people's
> hands.  If you used a wire like that to strangle
> someone, it
> would cut into your hands too -- unless you were
> wearing heavy
> gloves."
> 

"And somebody should make sure that *nobody* leaves
the building," said Tabitha, now sweeping the hair off
Nola's neck to get a better look. She turned to face
the others. "Even if it wasn't one of us -- which is
extremely unlikely, I'm afraid -- we can't risk
letting anyone get away who might have seen something."


		
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