CHAPTER SIX
And when you opened the mausoleum, his body was gone?” said Brains. He rubbed his forehead in exasperation. “Did I get all that right?”
Strike, Brains, Vanish, and I were back in the conference room. Though Brains and Vanish had both been annoyed when we summoned them back here, they immediately started listening when we told them about the disappearance of Phaser’s corpse. I let Strike do all the talking because he was the one who discovered the secret entrance to Phaser’s mausoleum and was more invested in this mystery than I was.
“You got that exactly right,” said Strike, who sat next to me. He held a cup of warm coffee in his hand, courtesy of the coffee machine set up in the corner of the conference room, although he barely even sipped it. “When we opened the back door,
