Ambitious Scotland Yard detective Sergeant Jack Gibbons hears about his latest case---the death of a middle-aged widower in Chipping Chedding, a small town in the English Cotswolds---and can't believe his good luck. His best friend, wealthy man-about-town Phillip Bethancourt, just so happens to ...
Indeed, he was inclined to chastise himself for not having continued with his program the evening before; after all, he couldn’t have been feeling that bad. He stalwartly ignored the twinge of pain in his abdomen that tried to belie this point of view. The house was quiet, but he easily found the...
“I do wish,” he said, “that Surrey CID would keep their messes to themselves.” “Yes, sir,” said Gibbons. They had been working on the case for a week and had turned up nothing. So far as they could determine, Annette’s account of her trips to London agreed exactly with what her credit cards said;...
Lemmy accepted this task amicably, without the resentment that most aspiring detectives would have shown. Carmichael barely noticed. With the constable out of the way, he went off in search of O’Leary, only to find that Inspector Hollings had apparently laid claim to his own subordinate today, an...
While it was true that his house and grounds were swarming with models, photographers, and various other people whose purpose eluded him, and that his drawing room was liberally draped with clothes and accessories, everything seemed to be going smoothly. No one was bothering him and no one had re...