By V. L. McDermid
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So get Henry over. ” As long as I can keep looking at you, I added mentally. Haroun inclined his head, conceding. “I’ll call him,” he said. He was gone for the best part of ten minutes. Instead of fishing a computer magazine out of my shoulder bag, or dictating a report into my micro-cassette recorder, I daydreamed. What about is nobody’s business but mine. When Haroun came back, he looked serious. “I’ve explained the situation to Mr. ” I was too well brought up to say, “I told you so,” but according to Richard I’ve cornered the market in smug smiles.
Haroun held my gaze for a long few seconds before turning back to his file. “As I said, we’ve had other incidents very similar to this. These thefts have all been from similar properties—medium-sized period properties that are open to the public. In each case, the thieves have broken in as near to the target as they could get. In a couple of cases, they’ve smashed through a window, but in a property like Birchfield Place, that obviously wasn’t appropriate. They ignore the alarms, go straight to the object they’re after, whip it off the wall or out of its case and get out.
But some are better than others. ” “That’s certainly how it looked when we first agreed the premium. It’s one of the factors we consider when we set the rate. ” “You don’t have to tell me. My postcode is M13,” I complained. He pulled a face and sucked his breath in sharply, the way plumbers are trained to do when they look at your central heating “It’s not all a hellhole,” I said sharply. He held his hands up and grinned. I felt the years slide away again and struggled to stay in the present. “Henry Naismith called to say you’d be coming in.