Act of Darkness
“Or maybe there was. It had taken a long time for Gregor to get into gear. So much was out of whack—the scene, which didn’t look like a scene; the body, which looked alive except for the fact that it wasn’t moving. The body looked so alive, Gregor wasn’t sure he would have been able to go on believing Debrett was dead if he hadn’t borrowed Bennis’s hand mirror and held it up in front of the corpse’s nose. He’d only done that after he’d spent half an hour wandering through the ominous open spaces... of Great Expectations, gathering the scattered members of the weekend party, and putting them all together in the closest of the “living room spaces” to the foyer. Now, Victoria and Janet sat close together, holding hands, but the rest of them arranged themselves at the edges of an invisible circle, a kind of emotional magnetic field. Even Stephen Fox and Dan Chester wanted little or nothing to do with each other. They were both ashen faced.
He went back upstairs, got the hand mirror from where he remembered seeing it on Bennis’s vanity, and went in to Kevin Debrett again.MoreLess
He went back upstairs, got the hand mirror from where he remembered seeing it on Bennis’s vanity, and went in to Kevin Debrett again.MoreLess
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