Next Door to Murder
“She’d learned that the house was open to the public, which seemed an ideal way of gleaning some background information.
It was a humid, hazy day, with no direct sunshine to make driving difficult. The traffic was fairly light, and she made good time. She stopped somewhere on the Yorkshire borders for a sandwich, and reached the village of Ottersby at one thirty. By her reckoning, it was roughly ten miles north of Harrogate, and some two miles from Roxford Hall.
Having registered at the Roxford ...Arms and been shown to her room, she changed from her casual travelling clothes into a dress she felt more suitable for interviewing a lord and lady, and, on returning downstairs, asked the friendly landlady for directions to the Hall.
‘You can’t miss it, love,’ she was told, in a comfortable Yorkshire accent. ‘Straight up the road out of the village, and after a mile you’ll see the walls of the estate. The gates are a mile or two further on.’ She looked at the clock above the bar. ‘They don’t open till two, but it’ll be after that by the time you get there.’ Rona, who’d no intention of admitting she’d be interviewing the owners, thanked her and went back to the car.MoreLess
It was a humid, hazy day, with no direct sunshine to make driving difficult. The traffic was fairly light, and she made good time. She stopped somewhere on the Yorkshire borders for a sandwich, and reached the village of Ottersby at one thirty. By her reckoning, it was roughly ten miles north of Harrogate, and some two miles from Roxford Hall.
Having registered at the Roxford ...Arms and been shown to her room, she changed from her casual travelling clothes into a dress she felt more suitable for interviewing a lord and lady, and, on returning downstairs, asked the friendly landlady for directions to the Hall.
‘You can’t miss it, love,’ she was told, in a comfortable Yorkshire accent. ‘Straight up the road out of the village, and after a mile you’ll see the walls of the estate. The gates are a mile or two further on.’ She looked at the clock above the bar. ‘They don’t open till two, but it’ll be after that by the time you get there.’ Rona, who’d no intention of admitting she’d be interviewing the owners, thanked her and went back to the car.MoreLess
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