Hunting Shadows: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery
““Burrows is at home. A chastened man. I think he’ll let his daughter attend to that wound now.”
“Blood poisoning. He could have died.” McBride stood up and stretched.
“Tell me what you know about this man Thornton. In Isleham.”
“Not much, sir. Just that he’s kept to himself since the war. People hardly ever see him out and about.”
And yet he’d been in Ely today.
“He told me he barely knew Swift. And I’ve learned since then that they knew each other rather well, before the wa...r.”
“I doubt that makes him a murderer. People change in six years. And Swift wasn’t in the Army, he never went to France. They wouldn’t have much in common now, would they?”
“Probably not. Was Thornton ever engaged to be married?”
“I haven’t heard anything about it. Not to a local girl, at any rate.”MoreLess
“Blood poisoning. He could have died.” McBride stood up and stretched.
“Tell me what you know about this man Thornton. In Isleham.”
“Not much, sir. Just that he’s kept to himself since the war. People hardly ever see him out and about.”
And yet he’d been in Ely today.
“He told me he barely knew Swift. And I’ve learned since then that they knew each other rather well, before the wa...r.”
“I doubt that makes him a murderer. People change in six years. And Swift wasn’t in the Army, he never went to France. They wouldn’t have much in common now, would they?”
“Probably not. Was Thornton ever engaged to be married?”
“I haven’t heard anything about it. Not to a local girl, at any rate.”MoreLess
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