He liked to get a head start on the paperwork before everybody else arrived. Trelawe went to place his briefcase on his desk then stopped as he realised there was something there already. A copy of a newspaper had been placed neatly on the desk so its occupier would see the front page as soon as ...
There was no need to check her story about the row in the café – enough people had witnessed that. Instead he looked through the window and noticed how cramped it was. Causing an argument in a place this size wasn’t a very English thing to do, he reasoned … unless you wanted everyone to remember ...
Obviously I did not expect her to be happy that her mum was scattered all over the carpet like a carton of Shake-n-Vac but I did expect her to listen to me while I tried to explain what had happened. I told her I’d had no choice but to fend off my attacker with the only object to hand, which just...