Death of An Englishman

Authors: Magdalen Nabb

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“He had a slightly wizened look about him and, although he could not have been all that old, his hair and small moustaches were white. His clothes were from the most expensive and fashionable shops in Florence but you had to look at their discreet but visible labels to tell. There was a tinge of the fairground operator about him which hand-painted silk and supple, expensive leather did nothing to dispel. He was as calm as when they had first brought him to Headquarters just before two in the mor...ning, and the sun was up now, coming in low at the windows of the Captain's office and warming the polished floor tiles. The Captain was exhausted, his eyes sore and his face dark with beard, but he would not give in, especially in front of the two Englishmen who were sitting slightly apart from the action, hunched in their chairs. Jeffreys, too, was pale and bleary-eyed.
The Captain repeated tonelessly: What did you do with the gun?' The man's flat had been searched as soon as it was light, his shops were being searched now.MoreLess Read More Read Less