The Body of a Woman: A Superintendent Mike Yeadings Mystery (Superintendent Mike Yeadings Mysteries)

by Clare Curzon

  ‘Is Walter Pimm talking yet?’

  ‘Silent as the grave,’ Beaumont assured him. ‘But we’ve got him on the lot: dealing; attempted murder of Chloe; strangulation of her stepmother; and attempting to pervert the course of justice.’

  Yeadings sighed. ‘“That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to,” ’ he quoted.

  He saw Z grasped the quotation but couldn’t place it.

  ‘Under the Greenwood Tree,’ he supplied. ‘Hardy’

  Beaumont looked more wooden. ‘That’d be a Laurel then?’

  Good, Yeadings thought, watching Z wince, then smile: Beaumont’s in punny form again. Team harmony’s restored.

  But heaven help us when Mott pulls out. That’s when the sparks will really start to fly.

  THE BODY OF A WOMAN. Copyright © 2002 by Clare Curzon. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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  First published in Great Britain by Allison & Busby Limited

  eISBN 9781466823440

  First eBook Edition : June 2012

  First St. Martin’s Minotaur Edition: May 2003