Murder of Gonzago

The two men lit their cigars.

Gerard said dreamily, ‘My story will be about a man who dies twice.’

Coda The Murder of Gonzago (2)

It was a couple of days later.

Gerard Fenwick, thirteenth Earl Remnant, sat at his desk at Remnant, a brand new laptop before him.

‘I see you mean business this time,’ Renee Glover said with a smile. ‘Beginnings are always difficult, aren’t they?’

‘No, not really,’ Gerard said. ‘Not this one.’

He was about to embark on a novel, which he had provisionally called The Murder of Gonzago.

Gerard knew exactly where to begin:

Three minutes passed before they realized he was dead and another two before it was established how he had died, though any suspicious observer might have argued that at least one of the five people in the room had been aware of both facts all along …