Bodies
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“Yes. We talked in a pub.”
“He doesn’t sound like the sort of person you’d normally talk to in a pub. What did you talk about?”
I looked daggers at Jan. What a wonderful instinct she has for the tender spot.
“Well, if you must know,” I said with dignity, “we were both in this pub and he approached me . . . ”
“Yes?”
“Actually he asked me if I’d care to be photographed for Bodies magazine.”
Charlie let out a yelp of laughter, then threw himself hugely around in his chair, squirming with delight, and throwing back his head in a series of delighted chortles.
“Man!” he said, wiping his eyes. “That must have been some time ago!”
I could have killed him. Next day I got back into a serious teaming programme at the Scotland Yard gym.
About the Author
Robert Barnard (1936-2013) was awarded the Malice Domestic Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Nero Wolfe Award, as well as the Agatha and Macavity awards. An eight-time Edgar nominee, he was a member of Britain’s distinguished Detection Club, and, in May 2003, he received the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for lifetime achievement in mystery writing. His most recent novel, Charitable Body, was published by Scribner in 2012.
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This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
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