Chapter 6
RENDEZVOUS WITH THE DEADThe Commonwealth Hotel lay close to Gloucester Road in the posh London borough of Kensington. It was within walking distance of Hyde Park and the world renowned Victoria & Albert Museums. But since Maurice Cary's mysterious passing, these attractions, Stuart confessed as he snuck their Cortina into a leafy and dim street, meant nothing. Upon returning to his lodging that night following that unsettling sight outside the old man's flat, he felt nervous. He had reconnoitered the premises and noticed two things. Its two hundred or so rooms, not all of which Housekeeping locked when they finished cleaning, offered potential hiding places. And the exits onto side streets that thronged with pedestrians hurrying to nearby Kings Road's shops provided ways to avoi
