CONVERSATION WITH A CABBIE, PART IV

“Why did you bring me to the railway station? I don’t need to catch a train.” I looked around. The platform was deserted other than the cabbie, myself and a woman with her hair in a ponytail sitting on one of the bench seats. The tracks were deserted.

The cabbie smiled. “I was thinking that if you brought Martin and Claire to Harrogate, you might have them come from London by train.”

“But why would they come here?” I glanced up at the sky. It was blue with intermittent patches of cloud. “I can see they might stay at the Old Swan because of the Agatha Christie connection, but what would they do while they’re here?”

“I haven’t quite worked that part out yet, but I will.” He paused and furrowed his brow. “I recall that in BROOMETIME SERENADE they were lured to Broome by Wanda Jean and in INTRIGUE AT SANDY POINT they were searching for the murderer of that CIA agent, so maybe they’d come here to follow up on one of those cases.”

I shook my head. “Both those cases are pretty much closed, but there are a couple of loose ends I could tie up from one of their other cases.”

“Then why don’t you do that then?”

“Because I need to find something different, something strange, something unusual about the places I send my agents.”

“So that you can include some weird angle, like you did with the disappearance of the hitchhikers in the Alice Springs area?”

It was my turn to smile. “Something like that.”

His featured brightened, and he tapped me on the shoulder. “Get back in the cab. I think I’ve figured out just what you need.”

“Lead on. I’m open to suggestions.”

Want to find out more. You can here:

Intrigue at Sandy Point, The Oz Files, Book 2