by John Holt
“But they didn’t all die, did they,” said Peter.
“No, that’s right, they didn’t. There were a number of survivors. Who knows why? Their physical make up may have been a factor. Their metabolism, who knows? Their immune system maybe? Strangely enough some of them never actually developed the original illness. Anyway, Clark had to cover the whole thing up. If the truth were known Trenton Pharmaceuticals would have been shut down, and he would have ended up in prison. So he paid out compensation to the victim’s families, and to the survivors. The illness had been contained to one small area. There would be no more problems, or so he thought. Certainly people had died, but it had been restricted to that one place.”
“But he didn’t realize that many of the survivors would actually become carriers of the disease,” added Mollie.
“That’s right,” said Kendall. “Of course they never knew they were carriers. And, to be fair, neither did Clark.”
“Clark never meant for all of those deaths to happen then did he?” asked Angela.
Kendall shook his head. “Clark intended to create a virus, and then immediately come forward with a drug to cure it. That way he would make billions of dollars. But I have to say, in trying to be fair and just, I don’t really think Clark meant any of the deaths to actually happen. He was as surprised as anyone else. He didn’t expect things to go wrong, and people to die. It was just a stupid mistake back in the laboratory, some kind of a mix up by the chemist, together with an inadequate checking system.”
“Strangely enough, Mr. Kendall, I don’t feel any pity for him,” said Mrs., Dawson. “None whatsoever.”
Kendall looked at her, and smiled. He placed his hand on her arm. “Neither do I,” he said simply. “Neither do I.”
“So what now, Mr. Kendall?” asked Peter. “What plans do you have for the future?”
Kendall looked up and started to rub his chin. “The future,” he repeated. He shook his head, and sighed. “Let me see now.” He started to tap the desk. Of course there was that court case in April. That should all be over by May, or June. Then he looked over at Mollie, and nodded. “A holiday, I think,” he announced. Mollie looked up. “I’ve never been to Europe,” he continued. “I think we’ll go to England.” He smiled at Mollie, and nodded once again. “Yes that’s what we’ll do,” he continued. Mollie and I will have a few weeks in England.”
“England,” Mollie repeated, her eyes wide open.
“And maybe Ireland,” Kendall murmured. “I’m sure I’ve Irish blood in me somewhere.”
Irish blood, Mollie murmured. She shook her head. The only Irish in him is a touch of the old Blarney, more like.
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ALSO BY JOHN HOLT
‘To make a killing in the City’ is a phrase often used within the financial world, to indicate making a large profit on investments, or through dealings on the stock market - the bigger the profit, the bigger the killing. However, Tom Kendall, a private detective, on holiday in London, has a different kind of killing in mind when he hears about the death of one of his fellow passengers who travelled with him on the plane from Miami. It was suicide apparently, a simple overdose of prescribed tablets. Kendall immediately offers his help to Scotland Yard. He is shocked when he is told his services will not be required. They can manage perfectly well without him, thank you.
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The lake was flat and calm, with barely a ripple. Its dark waters glistening, reflecting the moonlight, as though it were a mirror. Fritz Marschall knew that neither he, nor his friend, should really have been there. They, like many others before them, had been attracted to the lake by the many rumors that had been circulating. He thought of the endless stories there had been, of treasures sunken in, or buried around the lake. He recalled the stories of the lake being used to develop torpedoes and rockets during the war. Looking out across the dark water, he wondered what secrets were hidden beneath the surface.
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On the night of April 14th 1865 President Abraham Lincoln was attending a performance at The Ford Theatre, in Washington. A single shot fired by John Wilkes Booth hit the President in the back of the head. He slumped to the floor, and died a few hours later without recovering consciousness. Was Booth a lone assassin? Or was he part of a wider conspiracy? What if Booth had merely been a willing party to a plot to replace Lincoln with General Ulysees S. Grant. Let us suppose that Booth had been set up by a group of men, a group of Lincoln’s own Army Generals; Generals who had wanted Ulysees S Grant for their President, and not Lincoln. And let us also suppose that the funding for the assassination had come from gold stolen by the Confederate Army.
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Tom Kendall had been with the 32nd Precinct, New York Police Department for just under ten years. But now he wanted a change. Now he wanted to start his own Private Detective Agency. He had grand ideas. He wasn’t interested in just any old case. Oh no, he would handle only the big time cases, the expensive ones.
He would be able to take his pick, the ones that he wanted, where the stakes were high and so were the rewards. He knew exactly the kind of case that he wanted. Anything else would not do, and it would just be turned down flat.
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