Malice in Miniature (2012)
“We went to the village church on Sunday morning, and though the music was awful, compared to a cathedral choir and organ, the vicar was a charming man who conducted a dignified service and preached a good sermon based on St. Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, the bit about husbands loving their wives. Perhaps because of that, or perhaps because a night together in a large, comfortable bed in the guest wing had strengthened our appreciation of each other, on Sunday afternoon we talked long and hard about Mrs. Lathrop’s murder. By tacit consent we avoided controversy. I was careful to be non-provocative in my remarks, and Alan, in his turn, was scrupulously fair about dealing out information. He really was trying to unbend.
I brought him up to date on the disappearance of the accountant. “When I found out, it seemed obvious that he was the culprit, but I thought about it on the train coming down, Alan, and now I’m not convinced that Thoreston actually had anything to do with it. I’m sure t...hey’ll find irregularities in the books—that’s why he’s vamoosed—but he’s not the type for anything more ambitious.MoreLess
I brought him up to date on the disappearance of the accountant. “When I found out, it seemed obvious that he was the culprit, but I thought about it on the train coming down, Alan, and now I’m not convinced that Thoreston actually had anything to do with it. I’m sure t...hey’ll find irregularities in the books—that’s why he’s vamoosed—but he’s not the type for anything more ambitious.MoreLess
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