As I came close to the underside I glimpsed structure – radial ribbing, perhaps circumferential pipework – and a central circular area that opened like a camera iris. It was just wide enough for me, still lying horizontal, to rise through. It couldn’t have been more than a couple of metres across...
Blank spaces, evidently the result of placing another sheet of paper between the page and the plate, are indicated. Other gaps between dates are in the original—Ross was, on this evidence, only an intermittent diary-keeper.No attempt has been made to reproduce the numerous doodles and scribbles, ...
Let Searle handle the questions for today. She couldn’t concentrate. She hadn’t slept well. Hugh’s late-evening belated confession had shaken her even more than the one last week, the one that had started with her confrontation with him over the gun. That Hugh, in their apparently open, weepy, le...
He was surprised to find it occupied by his wife. Isla grinned at him and glanced pointedly at her almost-empty glass. Ferguson nodded, and got a gin and tonic alongside his usual pint. Isla made room for him by shoving her coat on to the sill behind the seat. Isla was a small, dark-haired woman,...