The Burning Court (2011)
“—SAMUEL PEPYS, April 8th, 1661 I “There was a man lived by a churchyard—” is an intriguing beginning for a story left unfinished. Edward Stevens also lived by a churchyard, in more senses than one: which is the soberest possible statement of the fact. There was a miniature of the sort next door, of course, and the reputation of Despard Park had always been unusual; but that was not the most important churchyard.
Edward Stevens, who was not much different from you or me, sat in a smoking-car... of a train which would reach Broad Street station, at 6:48. He was thirty-two years old, and he had a tolerably important position in the editorial department of the publishing house of Herald & Sons, Fourth Avenue. He rented an apartment in the East Seventies, and owned a cottage at Crispen outside Philadelphia, where he spent many week-ends because both he and his wife were fond of that countryside. He was going there to join Marie on this Friday evening (which was in the far-off days of spring, 1929); and in his briefcase was the manuscript of Gaudan Cross’s new book of murder-trials.MoreLess
Edward Stevens, who was not much different from you or me, sat in a smoking-car... of a train which would reach Broad Street station, at 6:48. He was thirty-two years old, and he had a tolerably important position in the editorial department of the publishing house of Herald & Sons, Fourth Avenue. He rented an apartment in the East Seventies, and owned a cottage at Crispen outside Philadelphia, where he spent many week-ends because both he and his wife were fond of that countryside. He was going there to join Marie on this Friday evening (which was in the far-off days of spring, 1929); and in his briefcase was the manuscript of Gaudan Cross’s new book of murder-trials.MoreLess
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