Sweet Poison
“‘You embroiled the Bishop in a bar-room fight, asked him if he had murdered General Craig, and then invited him to write for your beastly rag?’‘I thought you would be pleased,’ said Verity. ‘I have been following up leads. You have been doing nothing but taking women out to disorderly houses. I wish I had pointed out to Tommie that his punching that Fascist on the chin proved my point about tribal warfare,’ she added meditatively. ‘Oh well, perhaps better not.’It was eight o’clock and Edward wa...s sitting up in bed eating his lightly boiled egg, toast and marmalade when the telephone had rung. It was Verity. Without pausing to inquire after his knee, she regaled him with the whole story of her day’s adventure. Edward had to admit she appeared to have been a more successful sleuth than he, and it rather got up his nose.‘Yes, and I haven’t finished yet.’ Verity’s voice came over tinny and shrill through the instrument. ‘Guess what?’‘I can’t,’ said Edward wearily.MoreLess
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