Maxwell's Inspection (2011)
“Leave that sort of thing to choirmasters and the Catholic church. No, he saw more than enough of them during the day, those curious denizens of the dark who normally shunned sunlight, who scowled under cowls throughout the winter and wore shorts down to their ankles in the height of summer. But this one was different. This was the anorak Olly Carson, who took his summer holiday in Roswell and whose bedroom door bore the triangular no-go sign ‘Area 51’.
The sea was restless below the grass-b...lown cliffs that edged the Shingle, that spit of land that ran, like Nature’s pier, out into the Channel. In the distance, the tankers crawled by in the evening sun, bright in their port colours and the gulls’ wings caught the dying embers of its rays.
From the beach below, where the darkening headland had spread its chill, the chatter and laughter of the barbecuers came as snatches of a song, now soft, now loud and the dim, distant racket of the fairground.MoreLess
The sea was restless below the grass-b...lown cliffs that edged the Shingle, that spit of land that ran, like Nature’s pier, out into the Channel. In the distance, the tankers crawled by in the evening sun, bright in their port colours and the gulls’ wings caught the dying embers of its rays.
From the beach below, where the darkening headland had spread its chill, the chatter and laughter of the barbecuers came as snatches of a song, now soft, now loud and the dim, distant racket of the fairground.MoreLess
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