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Book Murder at the Regal Hotel continued:
"Did you ask him about it?"
"Yes, and that was when he said he'd tell me about it when he'd got a few more details."
"You haven't got any idea what it was about?". I persisted because the last case a dead detective was working on is probably the one which got him killed, "Did you look in his desk or at his notes?"
"No, that isn't allowed in Wyatt's firm." Greg shook his head, "Wyatt and his secretary kept everything tied up very tightly. Notes and reports are kept in locked filing cabinets and only Wyatt and his secretary have the keys. You have to get permission to see any papers you might need. They're absolutely paranoid about it. Once a cleaner came in and opened a filing cabinet which Wyatt had just used and had left unlocked for a second - she said it was just to dust the top of the drawer - and Y. Y. went absolutely berserk. He screamed at her that she was undermining the security of the office. She said she wasn't going to be talked at like that and she left. I think he would have sacked her anyway."
It seemed to do Greg good to talk about something else for a moment. He had stopped being so angry, and concentrating on what he was saying had calmed him down.
"So what happened? You arranged to see Frenchie at that hotel?
"Yes, he left a message on my answer-phone at home to see him at midnight."
"Midnight? A bit melodramatic wasn't it?"
Greg shook his head, "No. He said he was seeing a someone else during the evening and it would take him 'til midnight to get back to Cardiff."
"Who was the person he was seeing?"
"I don't know."
"Didn't he tell you? Try to remember."
I must have been raising my voice because Jane butted in. "Don't be so aggressive with him. Can't you see he's under a lot of strain. Is it so important anyway?"
"It's extremely important. The last case a detective is working on is the first clue in a murder."
Greg continued: "I don't know what the case was. In fact I don't even know if it was a case for the company. He seemed so secretive. That's why I thought it was something he was doing on his own."
"On his own? You mean that Wyatt probably didn't know what he was doing?"
"I don't know. That's just the impression I got. That's why I thought he was being so secretive."
"O.K So carry on. You went to meet him at midnight. Did you tell anyone you were going?"
"No. When I got the message, I just went. It was about eleven thirty anyway."
Jane asked him, "When did you get the message?"
Greg thought a bit, "I got home about eleven but I didn't check it until about a half-hour later. So that's when I got it."
"Right, "I said, "Was there any indication of the time that Dubois left the message?"
"I don't think so," he said.
"Doesn't the machine tell you when the message was left?"
"I know it's supposed to but I haven't reset the time properly for months now so the time it gives is hopelessly wrong."
"Did you go straight away?"
"Yes. I had to, to get there by midnight."
"So you got there at exactly what time?"
"About ten to. That was when I heard the shot. Just as I was going into the entrance."
"You heard a shot at ten to twelve? What did you do then?"
"Nothing for a bit. I thought it might have been a car backfiring or something. I wanted to see what would happen. If anybody ran out or something. But I didn't go in straight away."
"Did you see anyone?"
"Nobody."
"Not even a receptionist, or porter or something?"
"No. It isn't the kind of hotel that has staff there all the time."
"So what then?"
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