The Red Carpet: A Novel of Deception and Murder
Luis Mary, a friend of Manolo Garcia Urbina died under mysterious circumstances, everyone thinks it was a suicide, but Manuel and Teresa believe has not been the case. Teresa was Manolo girlfriend, but was then mistress of Louis Mary. A couple of months before his death, Manolo Mary accompanied Louis to follow a man, Campuzano, the head of a medical journal, to get them talking about a fraud to finance it was investigating Luis Mary, in order to gather evidence denounce it and take some of the money. When he died, Manolo begins to investigate at the request of Teresa. The wife of the deceased, asks a briefcase that had his friend, with research papers and six hundred thousand pesetas, but not give it, remains with her to see the floor of Louis Mary. After Louis died, Mary, also died Campuzano, which makes the matter more strange and Manolo makes more involved in the investigation. Teresa is very depressed, he goes to see a head of Basedow laboratories allegedly committed the fraud.
This is shown nervous when Manolo says his theory of the murder, but then returns to calm and speaks in a sarcastic and superior. Upon returning home, Manolo discovers that have registered, and those who have come back, but he plays dead and rush out of there. The next day, met with the widow to see the chaotic attic dead. The wife, Carolina, nothing else seems unconcerned that the portfolio with the papers and money, but she really knows who recorded them, and is very involved in the matter. Three thugs are waiting to go home, but give a time of four days to find his wallet. Soon after Teresa goes home to spend the night there because she is very depressed. She explains that it was a group of people including his wife Carolina that killed Luis Mary. The next morning called the police inspector who took the case, now closed, his friend, and he proposes to do a report and present it at the station. Is to eat with Carolina, Cheating on having information of the portfolio, when going over there, he pursued a man who enters the restaurant and she claims not to know. But in the evening she called, and he knows that the hunter is hired by her, because he had gone to the Treasury, and that’s what she asks him first. Have dinner that day, and to deliver the portfolio. All that was inside, it gets a red carpet that makes carrying a coworker at the restaurant, and he takes the empty wallet. When exchanging documents and money with a check for two million pesetas, black money, they leave the restaurant, and they put in a car to take them to the General Directorate of Security. I have a room for questioning, and then locked him in a dungeon, without explanation, tell him to explain everything in the morning. When the next morning realize he has nothing to do, they let him go, accompanied by CBulge inspector with whom she discussed the matter, and another policeman, who will monitor your home. I have been there and you provide the beginning Cardenas of his novel, which really is the report of the facts that have passed, and then sleep. At four inspectors back Cardenas, who chat around with it and takes a sample of paper that had not been delivered to the bullies or Carolina. But order the next day at eleven, you have an appointment at the police station with the inspector to tell you who the murderer. She discovers that what he really wanted was money Carolina, which was forged by the laboratories. The Mary Louis stole money, but without even knowing it was fake, just because he suspected his wife was on the side of Basedow. The head of research of the role of the company, which met Manolo, is the brains of the group. Campuzano was the one providing the printing of his magazine Pituitary, but he did not kill him, but really if he is killed. Then is when it discovers everything. It was not true that Manolo had not seen mMary Louis ore, but joined him in that attic shabby, and he taught the novel in which he played the dead, and was told in first person as if his friend Manolo whatever it talk, which also recounted a meeting of police and Manolo. Manolo liked it so much that he even think that was his. But there was the problem of Louis Mary, so he killed her. The inspector does not stop you, because judges that the worst punishment is going to have to be a bad detective fiction. He returned the check for two million and Manolo goes. It’s going to Teresa’s house, he gets a little drunk. He asks for Carolina, and he says the wait. He hands the check and tells him not to revoke, because they are only imaginary characters in imaginary book. She kisses him and he feels inside a sound that hits you, the sound that led him to the house, an elevator, and that led to crime.