Death At Hungerford Stairs (2015) - Plot & Excerpts
He was glad that Theo was not now a serious suspect. Would he live? he wondered. It was dark now and the streets were full, but he could not help scanning the faces, looking for that pinched countenance with the thick spectacles which had concealed, perhaps, the face of a woman who had been prepared to help a killer. He remembered what Rogers had said when they had first discussed the shawl – it could be a woman. He had reminded them of Mrs Manning – ‘’Ard as nails’, Rogers had said. And she was. Dickens had read all about the case of cold-blooded Maria Manning who had shot her lover, Patrick O’Connor, through the back of the head, having invited him to a meal. She had directed him to wash at the sink where a hole had been dug and quick lime bought in readiness to dispose of the body. When the shot did not kill Patrick O’Connor, Maria looked on while her husband Frederick had finished him off by battering his head with a crowbar – Maria had watched impassively. Then, according to some newspaper reports, she had sat down to dine on the goose which she had cooked for three.
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