They had an egg each, thanks to a neighbour’s generosity. Maude wanted to scramble the eggs to make them go further, but Titus shook his head. ‘No, definitely not.’ he said, ‘Nothing beats a soft-boiled egg. This will be the highlight of my day.’ He’d barely finished it wh...
He came into the bar where I was sitting. There was nobody else there, as the George did not serve alcohol until after 11.00 am. When I saw him I assumed that the body had been found, and I girded my loins for the first remark. I half-expected him to arrest me. However, it quickly became clear th...
There was no point remaining in town, so I braved a tram and headed back to Carlton. I arrived at Clutterbuck’s house just as he was letting himself in. He was wearing his American army uniform again. I felt sure that there was more to this deception than the acquisition of sex and pantry items. ...
He loved Adolf Hitler and Ptolemy Jones. Hitler was in Berlin, a long way from Victoria, and Jones was dead. He knew Jones was dead because he’d stood in the shadows and watched the coppers bring his body out of a house in Belgrave. One of those coppers had been a Jew named Joe Sable, and that me...
The weight on their backs, and the oppressive heat, meant that we walked beside them. Fulton said that we’d be lucky to do twenty miles a day. During the first hour of our exodus we passed through tall grass over terrain that was flat, and it wasn’t very arduous. When the ...
I ought to have reported Geraldine’s appearance to the police. Her immediate disappearance, however, put me in an awkward spot. I felt a terrible dread that she would be found dead somewhere, and when this thought insinuated itself into my mind, it arrived with the ungracious suspicion that Geral...