A Prospect of Vengeance
“And he put his finger quite literally on it (and slightly drunkenly, slurring his words a little), as he stabbed the protected enlargement of the microfilmed newspaper page.
‘Thish ish it! You mark my wordsh, Ian lad! Thish ish it!’ Ian had spent three good hours in the library by then, dissecting the anatomy of an almost perfect murder, albeit without ever getting close to the victim. Because, if there was one certain thing about the death of Philip Masson, it was that he’d never actually ...been on board the Jenny III on the evening and night of Friday/Saturday, November 17/18, 1978.
But, equally certainly, somebody who knew his job had been on the Jenny III instead of him.
The reliable Daily Telegraph had done its own job well, in reporting the eventual inquest at length on page three. Maybe there hadn’t been a good murder trial that day, to lead the page. Or perhaps some smart editor had calculated that there might be a great many yachtsmen among the Telegraph readers, who would study every line of three columns thinking all the time this could have been me!MoreLess
‘Thish ish it! You mark my wordsh, Ian lad! Thish ish it!’ Ian had spent three good hours in the library by then, dissecting the anatomy of an almost perfect murder, albeit without ever getting close to the victim. Because, if there was one certain thing about the death of Philip Masson, it was that he’d never actually ...been on board the Jenny III on the evening and night of Friday/Saturday, November 17/18, 1978.
But, equally certainly, somebody who knew his job had been on the Jenny III instead of him.
The reliable Daily Telegraph had done its own job well, in reporting the eventual inquest at length on page three. Maybe there hadn’t been a good murder trial that day, to lead the page. Or perhaps some smart editor had calculated that there might be a great many yachtsmen among the Telegraph readers, who would study every line of three columns thinking all the time this could have been me!MoreLess
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