The fun and games were over with the arrest of Peter and although the failure to charge him with the murder was still good for a minor headline, feeling was that time would take care of that … as, indeed, it would. More current now was the pulled muscle of the City’s centre-forward. The situation...
He also exchanged his shoes for strap sandals and removed his tie and unbuttoned his shirt and after inquiry went into the Bridge Stores where he purchased a straw hat of Italian manufacture. Then he returned to the Club and ordered an iced lemonade shandy which he drank through two straws; but b...
It was at its best at the top end. Just there it skirted a small park or garden, and the houses which faced it, Edwardian Rococo, had a wistful air of having known better times and more civilized people. Outside one of these a crowd had collected. It spread along the pavem...
It was a thick, early edition with the plates, and Dutt was frowning at it through his reading glasses. When Gently entered he put it down. ‘Hello, chief. Have a good evening?’ Gently grimaced and took a chair. He closed his eyes and leaned backwards. ‘I’ve been having a go at this Dickens bloke ...