Murder in Grosvenor Square
“Not the most affluent address, but the house was private. The narrow abode, the width of one room and a staircase hall on each floor, rose four stories to a ceiling lost in shadows.The house was dark, no lights but a candle in a lantern Brewster held. I’d insisted on returning my lantern to the man I’d taken it from, much to Brewster’s amused disdain.Brewster led me up two flights of stairs to a front bedroom. I could tell it was a bedchamber only when Brewster’s lantern cut through the vault o...f blackness to illuminate pale hangings around a large bed. I laid Leland on the bed’s coverlet, ignoring the blood and mud both of us smeared on it. “It’s bloody freezing in here,” I said over my shoulder. “Get a fire going.”Brewster grunted, not liking to take orders from me, but he saw the sense in doing so. Soon he was banging around the fireplace and had a blaze going. He lit fresh candles in silver candlesticks, lighting up the small room.The bedchamber was sparse, with only a bed, a washstand, and a night table.MoreLess
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