![]() ![]() ‘Some children found some engine parts in the field long ago, I believe. Did you have any idea that this plane was here?’ ‘Can’t you smell it? And look at the blue marks on the soil. Clearly he’s terrified that she’s going to embarrass him. She kneels down and scoops some earth in her hand, giving it a surreptitious sniff. Ruth guesses that he must be the digger driver. The third man, dressed in jeans and a filthy football top, stands slightly aside as if to imply that none of this is his fault. Spens is tall and good looking his air of authority is only slightly dented by the fact that he is wearing tennis clothes. ‘At Lockwell Heath.’ Ruth recognizes him as Edward Spens, a local property developer whom she encountered on an earlier case. ![]() ‘There was an American airbase near here,’ says one of the other men. ![]() She thinks that Nelson would have been just the sort of boy to collect models of second world war fighter planes. Three quarters of a wing and half a cockpit lie exposed at the bottom of the shallow pit. ![]()
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