Eight Murders in the Suburbs
“A student of criminology could have told Penfold—if not the learned judge himself—that murder eventuates, not from immediate circumstance, but from an antecedent state of mind.
The murder occurred in 1935. The antecedent state of mind was created five years earlier, on an October evening when Penfold, returning from the office, found a note in his wife’s handwriting on the hall table.
Penfold, an only child of very doting parents, was born in 1900. At twenty-five he inherited the family... business, a wholesale agency for technical inks—almost any ink except the kind one uses with a pen. His mother had died the previous year. For three years he lived alone in the twelve-roomed house, with an acre of garden, in the overgrown village of Crosswater, some twenty miles out of London. The house was vibrant with memories of a benevolently autocratic father, whose lightest wish became his wife’s instant duty—whose opinions on everything she accepted as inspired wisdom.MoreLess
The murder occurred in 1935. The antecedent state of mind was created five years earlier, on an October evening when Penfold, returning from the office, found a note in his wife’s handwriting on the hall table.
Penfold, an only child of very doting parents, was born in 1900. At twenty-five he inherited the family... business, a wholesale agency for technical inks—almost any ink except the kind one uses with a pen. His mother had died the previous year. For three years he lived alone in the twelve-roomed house, with an acre of garden, in the overgrown village of Crosswater, some twenty miles out of London. The house was vibrant with memories of a benevolently autocratic father, whose lightest wish became his wife’s instant duty—whose opinions on everything she accepted as inspired wisdom.MoreLess
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