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Book Murder at the Regal Hotel continued:
"Let's get the facts." I snapped, trying not to sound like a caricature of an American private eye, "First of all, who's dead?"
"Frenchie Dubois," said Greg, "You know one of the people who worked for Y. Y. Wyatt."
Wyatt ran a detective agency based near the centre of Cardiff. We had come up against him several times and neither Sian nor I liked him at all. Sian, who insisted on high ethical standards, tended to be very critical of other detective agencies who were less fastidious. She often said that it was a pretty mucky business anyway and that meant that one had to be particularly rigorous in order not be tainted by it. Wyatt made no effort to be ethical. His main aim was to make money from his business and he steered as close to the line between legality and illegality as would give him the maximum of profit.
"What happened? Where did he die? ".
"It was at the Regal Hotel." said Greg.
"Where?" I queried.
"The Regal Hotel. It's in Gabalfa. Surely you know it. It's a pretty sleazy place."
I was getting fed up with this. Having implied I had no brains, he was now suggesting that the only hotels I knew were sleazy ones.
"Were you there too?"
Greg became very insistent. "Only afterwards. That's the point. I arrived after he had been shot."
Jane intervened, "What were you doing there?"
He hesitated.
"Why don't you tell us the whole thing?" I suggested, "Start from the beginning. How did you happen to be in the Regal Hotel?"
"Well, you know after I left your outfit . . ."
I intervened, "After you were sacked."
Jane stiffened, "Let him tell us in his own way. And don't rub it in about the job."
Greg continued. "When I lost my job with Sian Lloyd-Evans, I got a job with Wyatt."
"Huh," I muttered, "I thought he had higher standards than that." Jane turned on me, her eyes flashing, "Leave him alone and stop interrupting him!"
"I got this job with Wyatt, as an investigator. I did quite well really. I'd learnt my lesson with your firm, and I got the evidence he needed for a divorce case. So he was quite pleased. The next case was a missing person. A woman was missing but the guy who took us on to find her wasn't her husband. He had a wife as well but the missing woman was his . . well . . just a friend of his. He didn't want to tell the police she was missing in case his wife heard about it. So we started checking . . ."
I interrupted, "We? You said we. Who was that?"
"I was working with Frenchie Dubois," He pronounced it 'Doo Boys', "And we were getting on quite well. We had found a couple of her girlfriends and we were going to ask them about her. But then Frenchie seemed to lose interest in that case and he was going off after something else."
I asked him, "You've no idea what that was?"
Greg looked puzzled, "Not at all. It didn't seem to be any of the current cases Wyatt was working on so I thought that it was something that Frenchie was working on, you know, on his own."
"On his own? You mean he was moonlighting? Paid by Wyatt on this job but working on something else as well?"
"I thought so."
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