Deadly Obsession (Angus Brodie and Mikaela Forsythe Murder Mystery Book 6) by Carla Simpson

Author:Carla Simpson [Simpson, Carla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oliver Heber Books
Published: 2023-12-18T16:00:00+00:00

There were no new messages upon my return to the office on the Strand, nor had there been any telephone calls according to Mr. Cavendish who seemed to have excellent hearing.

I had stopped and purchased luncheon at the Public House, then shared my meal with both the hound and Mr. Cavendish. I then set about adding the latest notes to the chalkboard from our visit to Great Scotland Yard.

When I had entered the last of the new information, I stood back and inspected the board and the bits and pieces of information I’d written there. It was like an enormous puzzle where the pieces were scattered about and made no sense.

Odd as he was, the information Jefferson Talbot had provided was useful in helping me to understand how the two photographs of Amelia Mainwaring and Catherine Thorpe might have been taken— a long and laborious process with a glass plate camera.

I had seen them before, monstrous in size, and couldn’t imagine how one might have been used to make those photographs. That took me back to the notion of a box camera, or at least one that was more easily moved about. There was something we were missing.

Mr. Cavendish signaled for a cab as I returned to the street after tucking those two photographs into my bag. A driver promptly arrived, and I gave him the location of Piccadilly Circus that Lucy had mentioned.

We arrived at the Circus in good time as the late afternoon traffic congestion had not yet set in. I stepped down from the cab and paid the driver.

I was quite familiar with the Circus that wasn’t a circus in the usual sense but a central London thoroughfare in Westminster, that connected Piccadilly leading from the Haymarket and Regent Street, west to Hyde Park that was now sadly part of our investigation.

I had become quite familiar with the “Circus,” as it was referred to by longtime London residents during the inquiry case involving my sister. According to city officials there were plans in the making for a tube rail station underground that would supposedly alleviate surface street congestion. The wonders of the modern world.

It also linked the theater district with overhead signage announcing the latest plays at the Empire and Drury Lane featuring my friend, actress Theodora Templeton, and musicals in the British Music Hall.

At the center of the junction of busy streets is a square encircled by street lamps at night. By day the Circus was filled with placards and street signs with a variety of advertising, industrious hawkers, and both aspiring and amateur photographers who set up kiosks eager to take the photographs of those on the street.

And it was here that an ambitious young photographer on the street might be able to take the photograph of some man or woman that would launch his career past selling stereopticon prints for a few pence each.

I eventually found Davey Morris with his camera in the process of taking a photograph of two women who were taking advantage of the break in the weather.

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