Death in a Far Country
“It invited her to present herself at County Police HQ the following week to give evidence in the inquiry into the events three months previously surrounding the deaths of members of the family of Gordon Christie. She put the letter down carefully on the table, as if it would explode if handled roughly, took off her coat and sat down heavily in a chair, which was where Michael Thackeray found her some fifteen minutes later, gazing at the silk flowers in the fireplace with a dazed look in her eye...s.‘What is it?’ he asked, and picked up the letter when she gestured in the direction of the sheet of paper lying on the table. He glanced at her pale face after he had read it and put a hand on her shoulder.‘You really don’t need to worry about it,’ he said quietly. ‘You did nothing wrong. Just tell them exactly what happened.’‘I don’t want to make it any worse for you than it already is,’ she said. ‘If they’re going to hang you I don’t want to be the one kicking away the chair.’‘Look, I know what I did,’ Thackeray said.MoreLess
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