Ruling Passion
“The pub was situated alongside a boarding kennels and the resident dogs howled accusingly at him as he parked his car.Ellie had finished her soup and was tearing the heart out of a steak pie, signs of a good appetite which pleased him as he made his apologies and refilled her glass.'I thought you said you were going to be in Birkham this morning,' she complained.'Something came up.'Dropping his voice, he quickly sketched out what had happened the previous evening. Matthew Lewis, forty-th...ree, senior partner in a firm of estate agents, had been called back from a late holiday in Scotland to attend to some urgent business. He had finished at his office at four-thirty. Deciding he was too exhausted to face the long drive north that evening, he made for home.A neighbour had seen him turn in to the drive of his handsome ranch-style bungalow at ten past five. At five-thirty, the neighbour, Mrs Celia Turvey, had gone to the front door of Lewis's house with a parcel she had taken in for him from the postman.MoreLess
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