Page 62 of Murder Most Haunted

Extract from They Do It With Strings podcast

‘The Tin House’: Episode Five

[Interview with John Rendell continued]

Rendell: You’re all so uptight and ready to take offence, a drink would do you all some good.

Noah: I don’t see what good anaesthetizing yourself with alcohol does.

Rendell: No? Well, don’t knock it till you’ve tried it.

[Sound of glass being refilled]

Noah: I have drunk alcohol before, you know. It’s a choice now not to.

Rendell: Woohoo! Bet you’re a right little one-man party train. Have you considered that may be why your podcast thing got dropped by its sponsors – because you’re so boring?

[Silence]

Noah: Who told you?

Rendell: Oh yeah, I know all about that. I do my research, see, like a proper investigator. You, coming in here lording it over everyone with your paranormal this and that . . .

Noah: It was a mutual parting of the ways.

[Harsh laughing]

Rendell: Of course, mutual parting. If you say so, son.

Noah: I’m not your son.

Rendell: Speaking of which, I imagine Daddy wasn’t too happy about you buggering up this job as well, was he? Bit of a pattern there Noah . . . dropping out of the cadets, then out of university. What was it, computers or something? And now this! You literally can’t stick at anything can you?

Noah: He . . . doesn’t . . .

Rendell: Oh my God, you haven’t told him, have you?

Noah: No, and you better not tell anyone else.

Rendell: Is that a threat?

Noah: All I need is one good recording and the listeners will come flooding back. The sponsors and the platforms will be right behind them.

[Pause]

Rendell: Well, in that case, you better hope this weekend goes with a bang.