During my journey I wondered how I’d know him. As it turned out I could hardly have missed him, as he was bigger than anyone else there. He had spotted and identified me almost before I had both feet on the platform, and bore down on me. ‘You’ll be the chap from London!’ he boomed, gripping my ha...
That animal is bred for the purpose and is, as working horses go, a regular diamond. He’ll keep going all day without going lame or starting to wheeze or otherwise breaking down. He’s a young horse, too, you know, only a six year old. I had to pay handsome for him,’ added Wally confidentially, ‘b...
Together with the discovery of the body of a beautiful woman, lying strangled in Green Park (and one whose husband owned a gallery in Piccadilly), it must have given them more material than they could have dreamed of in their wildest moments. Naturally the two stories were linked. I was as irrita...
The barn itself still existed but, she saw, had not been turned into a fashionable country home, as had so many other old barns. She wondered about its use now. She wasn’t the first visitor. There were two cars parked before the cottage already, one with a blue badge in the windscreen. That could...