After The Exhibition: A Jack Haldean 1920s Mystery (A Jack Haldean Mystery) - Plot & Excerpts
The two men, although both dressed in formal morning wear, in black coats and grey trousers, provided a real contrast in appearance. Bill Rackham, solid and ginger-haired, with an easy-going manner and good-natured face, somehow always managed to look slightly rumpled and unmistakably British, whereas Jack, taller and slimmer, with olive skin and intelligent dark eyes, looked as if he’d be at home in Barcelona or Madrid. Although his mother had been Spanish, Jack had been born and brought up in England and it sometimes came as a shock to those meeting him for the first time, to hear his completely English voice. ‘Yes, it’s good of you to come,’ continued Bill. ‘Colin Askern asked me to bring a pal to the opening. I couldn’t think of anyone who’d be interested, apart from you.’ ‘That’s all right,’ said Jack Haldean. ‘I can see that the amount of blokes who’d leap at an opportunity to attend an exhibition of church art would be pretty limited. I’ve never heard you mention Askern before.
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