The Middle of Things
Автор:
J. S. FletcherЖанр:
Дата добавления:
2024-12-23Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
72
Description
Shortly after Richard Viner complains to his murder-mystery-loving aunt with whom he lives that such fiction couldn’t possibly “really represent life,” he himself finds a dead body in the lane behind his home. It turns out to be his neighbor, a man in his sixties, recently returned to England from Australia to care for the affairs of his ward, an accomplished young woman not long out of school. The police seem content to regard the crime as motivated by robbery, but Viner and his aunt, like the lawyers who get embroiled in the case, are convinced there is more to it than that.
It seems clear that J. S. Fletcher took at least some inspiration for this work from the famous...
