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Trouble.......with
that blonde...
in a Turkish bath!
Told by
PERCY
HOSKINS
and
LEONARD
MOSLEY
THE BIG WEB...CHAPTER 3 OF A FACT-PACKED THRILLER
It's a new kind of thriller. It's fact. It's And it's murder too, on the eve of fiction. the Interpol conference in Vienna. Who killed Johannsen, a shy, obscure delegate from Sweden, and left his shot-up body in the Vienna Woods? And why? And why was Johannsen clutching three black hairs and a piece of paper bearing an unknown code?
E
her chief, Annaliese and Inspector, burning into my buck as walked back to the Sacher Hotel.
1 sald: "Of course I am. I'm trying to catch a woman I saw going through there.”
the acting commissioner of the many baths in the large apart- ment boUKS And even those Western Australian police. You
WITC destroyed by the bomb we ought to have a lot in com- mon. He has A good many ing. So for most of the people
"But you can't do 1" said. dealings with drug smugglers in Vienna, if you want a bith
you go to the Diana.”
the little man. "Don't you sen and gold-runners, too."
the notice over the door? ID "Indeed you do!" I sold. I says: Nude Bathing for Wornen
Amaliese's hand and Only." grabbed started to pull her towards the Diana Baths.
But tonight I don't feel such a fool as I did. Herr Fritz von Grotewaht may well be as up- standing and respectabic 49 everybody says. But even if he out were not, I could not And about it from the Vienna police records,
Becaure before 1938 they don't exist.
We
drink and swopped A made an appointment for the next day, and then I went out into the evening sunshine, I was window-shopping despondently when, once nore, Annaliese caught up with me.
"You will leam, if you siny here very
long."
shc sald,
When Adolf Hitler and the smiling, "that one of the faults Nazis marched into Vienna in of Viennese women is that they 1938 and annexed Austria to the cannot be angry for long, Greater German Reich, the first especially with men And also
for to mid that they do not wait and thing they did was
the
Vienna have been absorbed, for these fields of operation. VERYONE is being are my
Instead, I fidgeted. very polite, but i can't escape the This evening. I bathed feeling that Interpol put on my dinner jacket
nnch police headquarters and destroy man 10 apologise first, but for
give him in advance." is slightly unpopular with walked over to the town hall, the criminal records. the Vienna police at the where the Mayor of Vienna,
This I I took her hand and tucked Il It under mine, and did the best job I could of saying how
moment. why too.
I can understand who rejolees
are
All of ឃុន who delegates to this conference are experienced detectives.
discovered. This 1 In the name of
hastened to tell Annaliese. HOTT Jonas, grave An official only made her angrier. cocktail party for the delegates and their wives,
saw
4
OUT "Just because
records "doesn't have gone," che saich,
anyone you might
has automatically criminal background. I tell you
of Herr von Grotewahl is one
citizens our most distinguished and It is an insult
You zhould suspect him."
At the far end of the room, I mean that
Annaliese talking to two suspect tall and handsome men), I re- cognised them both. I reacted
We feet concerned io this crime, not only because we liked with much more pleasure to one
Johannsen and hate the brutal way in which he was murdered, but because we realise that this blow against the crime is a
than I did to the other.
For one of them was Rafael Kubelik, the Czeff musician who ΠΟΥ shuttles between
reputation of interpol and all it London and Vienna, conducting
stands for,
NO we have all offered our ald
So
police with suggestions.
that
one
the Covent Garden Opera or- CHE stood before me and her with chestra at home and the Vienna bright eyes flickered Philharmonie here.
anger. "All right, what if he docs concem the fact that Annaliese's other companions of his Angers Ly missing? was Herr von Grotewahl, whom Couldn't that. In such a charm- mot with her last night at the ing and handsome man, be put Zither Man's in. To him too down to vanity?"
and bombarded the focal
I held out my hand,
In exactly the miro way that
So tonight Annallèse
and f
I let them take me back to bought the entrance hall, and "Look," I said. BA We ran the attendant and the little "Do you see that girl-that tail man a coffee. I did my best to blondo just going through the apologise. And then I looked deor? I swear she's the girl around for Anniless. who pulled poor little Johann- acn into the car on Wednesiny "The lady," I said to the little and took him on his death-ride," man, "dirl you 100 the Indy with me? She lo detective There must have been a hun from the Viennese police force. dred people crowding through Did you see which Way shu the door of the baths, but I went?" elbowed, pushed and shouldered my way through.
"There she is!" pointing up the
hundred yards
They shook their heads.
"She must have one into the
I shouted, stairs.
And pool aheed of
THE REAL PEOPLE IN
THE CASE
...
said.
after
that bloude." I "Please find her."
They called a woman'atten-
dant and explained.
I gavo
blonde,
a description first of Annaliesa and then of the tail and the attendant went off to find them.
The Mayor of Vienna, Berr CHE was away for 20 minutes. Jonas, was giving a cocktail party at ► When she came back sho
at me as
the town hall for delegates and their shrugged her shoulders, looked wives. At the far end of the room
If I were mad, and Annaliese woa - talking to Rafael began talking in German.: Kubelik, the Czech musician who now The little man said: "I cam shuttles between London, and Vienna very surry, sit, but there must mistake. -There are conducting the Covent Garden Optra be some House orchestra and tho Vienas
only five people in the women'a
A pool, and not one of them: Philharmonic Orchestra.
blonde. And Bong of them answers to the home of Fraulein
Scotland Yard might resent it I glanced at Annallese as he could hardly be described as clumsy Englishmen are in these, us, there she was a tall blonde Wittee.",
if the Paris Sureto told them bowed and ignored it. I could being on easy terms. As for us how le run their system, the 20 that she was furious.
Viennese have reacted with a coolness which is all the more
noticeable because they are try- ing so hard to conceal it.
And that goes for Fratilein
WO OTO
concerned personally Interpol co-operation no longer
exists.
And we are silil no nearer to solving the murder of little AST night, when I discovered Johannsen. LA
that Grotowahl has tho
circumstances.
We walked, not nolleing very much, towards the banks of the Danube Canal and stood rare walching crowds of people filing into a large building.
"What place is that?"
Annaliese Witoo's attitude to little finger of his right: Innd I talked a bit mord about naked Annallese.
mo. At this moment, as one professional detectivo to
other, she does not think much
that be
Was
I
with a towel and a ticket in her **
He paused, and then, as if ho hand, going, through a door...
sensted tho fear growing "Come on," I
said to inside me, he talked briefly to but fast!" Annaliese.
"Let's follow her the male attendent and said: "It is against the rules, but tho attendant says that you, may 20 Suddenly there was a brawny to tho observation room and man in uniforin barring my have à locit." way. I attempted to go round
And, worse still no Annaliese
him, but be blocked my pasengo. So we went upstairs.. I looked missing, and wears a false one music with. Kubeilk. * X macie
nrad folt like a Peoping I pushed and shoved, trying to dowis underneath his glove—I annoyed some sterile small-talk with She giggled, "The most popu- explain in English and broken Tom. But they were right. Annallese by (a) describing him Grotowall. I tried my best to ar place in Vienna. It is called German why I was so insistent. There were only five women
there. And no blonde, of me,
as suspicious when she insisted got my stripas back with the Plann Batha, It is the
Incgost, turkish, bath in the He took no notice but griped a famous and Annaliese, and failed. We spent most of the day at respected Austrian cluizen, andi
And as I struggled world. They have every kind of my nerOS, Interpol discussing the reports (b) asking to 900 his police so I went over to a notch of swimming pool, every kind of and shouted, a little min oma
kind of up of our finogices. An
to me and sold in English Indian record at the beadquarters of delegates and correspondents, sem-room, every
One leaned out and grabbed my delegate gave a lecture on gold the Vienna C.1.D...
shower and massage parlour. apologetically: "Io is not being officious, sir. He is only obey. amuggling, The Proaldont, M
artn.
"In Vienna, these days, many ing the rules of the baths. You There was no record there, or want you to meet Jack people go to it. You soe, event poe, sir, what you are trying to problems of international choque course, I came away feeling n
Normally, "I told 'fool." I could 'feel' tão acorn" of 'O'Brim,”. "he said. “He's the before the wor there were not do lo, go through that door."
Loutwego, taliced about the;
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