The Doublet Affair (Ursula Blanchard Mysteries) - Plot & Excerpts
The weather had turned mild and sunny, with a light breeze, and this at least did something to put heart into me. I needed it, for I was having trouble with Brockley and Dale. I had never told them about Dawson, but they had been on the barge when Fenn was found and exclaimed over. They knew he had probably been murdered and that this was somehow linked with Lockhill. That, on top of the boathouse incident, made them very reluctant to return there. They obeyed orders, but under protest. We arrived to find that strange things had happened during our absence. The top of the tower was now adorned with an extraordinary structure like a huge capital H, at least three times the height of a man, with a plank leaning against its crosspiece and lengths of rope trailing from it. George and Philip, meeting us in the courtyard, announced that this was the catapult with which their father hoped to give his new gliding engine the impetus to stay airborne. The engine was nearly finished, they said. “Mother is upset about it,”
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