Asa Bartram inquired. Meditating on his own question, he furrowed his brow, a troubled look in his pale blue eyes. “You must have made the motion. It’s almost always denied, but still, in a case like that, after what the boy said …” His voice trailed off as another thought came to mind. “Calvin d...
‘Mr Darnell…?’ ‘Forty days, you say? That in itself is an extraordinary achievement, wouldn’t you say, Captain Balfour? To stay out in a lifeboat that long, and at the end of it still have five other people alive?’ Darnell had not moved, had not looked at the witness. His eyes were still fixed on...
Francis Hotel.“I thought you might need this,”she said, laughing quietly, as she handed me a steaming cup of black coffee.The night before, the top had been up on her green Jaguar convertible, but this morning she had taken it down. Her hair was wrapped in a dark red silk scarf and her eyes were ...