Murder at the Club by C.G. Prado

Author:C.G. Prado [Prado, C.G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-05-09T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

The Third Tuesday

Charlie got to his office at nine. He checked his email and then settled in to work on his paper. He’d been letting it slide and that had to stop. He couldn’t allow his excellent publication record to deteriorate. At a quarter to eleven his cell rang.

“Dr. Douglas, this is Autumn Winston-Schuyler. You told me to call if I saw the car again. I just now saw it parking across the street and down the block.”

“Can you see the license plate?”

“No; that’s the first thing I looked for but it’s too far away.”

“Can you describe the car?”

“I’m not sure about the make, but it’s that very popular silver-grey color. It’s a sedan and looks quite new. I can’t make out who is in it, but the driver has not got out of the car. From where he’s parked, he could well be watching the house in his rear-view mirror. Looks more innocuous that way, I suppose, if that’s what he’s doing.”

“Okay, I remember where you live and I’m driving over right now. I should make it in about fifteen minutes. Call my cell if the car leaves.”

Charlie closed his laptop and hurried to his car. It actually took him twenty minutes to get to Winston-Schuyler’s block, but she hadn’t called. He turned into her street and drove to the intersection just before her block. He was barely into the intersection when a silver sedan ahead pulled away from the curb and drove fairly quickly to the next corner and turned right. Just then his cell rang. Charlie ignored the cell for the moment while he got to the corner and turned in the same direction as the sedan. He then picked up his cell and answered.

“Dr. Douglas…”

“Yes, I saw him pull out. I’m following, so have to get off the phone.”

The silver sedan was at the end of the block when Charlie turned and too far for him to read the license plate. The neighborhood being residential, there were no street-lights so Charlie sailed through the next intersection just in time to see the sedan turn left at the end of the next block. By the time Charlie got to the corner and turned left the other car had already crossed the next intersection, clearly having sped up as the neighborhood became less residential. The street they were now on had four lanes. Charlie also sped up and had the sedan in sight for three more blocks. Then things went wrong when he was stopped by a red light while the silver sedan continued on its way. Charlie wasn’t about to risk running a red light; there was enough traffic to make that dangerous. When he crossed the intersection he could not see the sedan. Coincidentally, the street he was on was the one he would have taken to return to his office, so Charlie kept going. He’d call Winston-Schuyler when he got back to the university.

Back in his office Charlie noted that his little adventure had taken just under an hour.

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