Casebook 4: A Score Settled - 4.3[index]

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It repeated on a loop - never changing. Whoever Jason DJ was, he only knew one track and it was 'Room 14, Hotel Ludwig, Vienna'. I switched off the radio, picked up the phone and called in to the office to put things in motion. I sat back down in my chair in silence. What was waiting in that hotel room? An hour later, the phone rang. I couldn't have imagined the truth.

“Empty?”

“Yes, sir. Unoccupied for a week, that particular room, sir.”

“And nothing out of the ordinary?”

“No, sir.”

“Send a man.”

“But, sir. To Austria?”

“Send a man.”

“Sir?”

“Send a man, detective. Send a man.” I was beginning to sound like a stuck record. “Send a man before someone dies.”

“Yes, sir!”

I slammed down the phone, switched the radio back on and paced the room, listening: