INSOMNIAC: ALAN SMITH #2 (Alan Smith series) by ARKOPAUL DAS Read Free Book Online Page B

front.’
    ‘Hey , you two check the rooms. I will go and see if there is another floor’ said Alicia and started climbing the stairs to see if the other floor also needs to be checked.
    ‘Seems like our man isn’t at home’ said Ryan. He took the straight route to the dark room pointing his gun , but it was not so dark as he thought it would be, ample of sunlight was coming through another window that was on the north west side  of the room . He yelled ‘Clear’
    It was the bedroom, and it was tossed.
    The bed was ransacked , even the pillow covers were out and half of the bed cover was lying on the floor. There was some drawers in the dressing table that were open and some papers were strewn helplessly on the floor. A glass jar was lying upside down  ,a flower vase broken. A framed wall picture that was moved roughly, resulting in a crack in the middle.
    Kevin was also there checking everything  and both of them looked at each other when Alicia entered and said ‘What’s all this?’
    ‘Someone was here before us’ said Kevin.
    ‘What are they after?’ said Alicia.
    ‘Whoever it is , he was trying to find something in particular. They even thought it might be in the flower vase’ said Ryan as he took the broken pieces in the hand and started plucking the plastic flowers.
    ‘Or behind the picture’ Kevin suggested. ‘They even thought that it might be hidden behind it.’
    ‘What were they searching for?’ asked Alicia again more to herself this time.
    She took the papers and started checking them.
    ‘No idea’ said Kevin .
    ‘Well I have an idea’ said Ryan.
    ‘What is it?’
    ‘Whatever they were searching for , it’s small in size’
    ‘Good point’ said Alicia keeping the papers back on the table ‘That’s why they considered searching the small places, like behind a picture’
    ‘And it is important to them. They are trying to find it out because maybe it might prove fatal to them later on’
    ‘That means Paul Brown have something that might prove fatal to the killer?’
    ‘It seems so’
    ‘Really? What can he possibly have?’
    ‘Hey.’ Said Alicia ‘why are we referring as ‘they’ or ‘them’?’
    ‘I am just describing the things’ said Ryan.
    ‘But why are we only wondering about what were they searching about, we also have to think ,where this man Paul Brown is?’ exclaimed Alicia.
    ‘I hope he’s not killed, too’
    ‘You know what I think?’ Kevin geared up for giving his theory ‘I think that this man had something important with him and he knew that someone else also wanted it , that’s why he fled somewhere and is hiding now’
    ‘That is possible’ replied Alicia ‘Then we will have to find him’
    ‘Sure we have to’
    ‘What are these papers for?’ asked Ryan.
    ‘Nothing , some old newspapers’ replied Alicia.
    ‘And they are not even the current ones, they are all dated’ said Kevin. 'So yeah they're old...'
    ‘Then why would he keep the papers?’
    ‘How do I know? You see, everything is peculiar just like you said’
    ‘Let me see it’ Ryan took the bunch ‘I will look into it and see it in more detail’
    ‘Man, they are some useless bunch of waste paper. What are you gonna do with them?’
    ‘Whatever’ said Ryan as he folded it in such a manner so that it just fits in his pocket although he could not avoid the bulge on the pant.
    ‘Okay, so get CSU to check the room and also canvas the whole area. You both go and see if anyone, or if any neighbour saw anyone suspicious here for the past few days or if they saw anyone coming in or going out’
    ‘You got it’ said Kevin as they both went out.
    * * * *
     
    ‘I informed them’ said Kevin as both of them sat on a roadside bench and Ryan soon took out a pack of stuffed bread and digged into it.
    Some more backups were also informed and some more police cars were now parked in the area with some busy uniforms who were roaming around the area discussing things among