The Price of Love And Other Stories
“Even Dr. Glendenning, the Home Office pathologist, who hesitated to pronounce death even when a victim was chopped into little pieces, admitted that the man was very dead. He also speculated as to time of death – another rarity – which he placed at between 7:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. that same evening.
All this took place in the spacious study of the Vancalms’ detached eighteenth century manor house, on the western fringe of Eastvale’s chic Dale Hill area, sometime after midnight. The man lying on... the carpet was Victor Vancalm, a wealthy local businessman, and a large bloodstain shaped like the Asian subcontinent had spread from his skull and ruined the cream shag carpet.
The stain came from a massive head wound, which had been inflicted with enough force to splinter the cranium and drive several sharp shards of bone into the soft tissue of Victor Vancalm’s brain. Blood spatter on the flocked wallpaper and on other areas of the carpet testified to the power of the blow. A brass-handled poker lay on the carpet not far from the body, surrounded by a red halo, as if it were giving off heat.MoreLess
All this took place in the spacious study of the Vancalms’ detached eighteenth century manor house, on the western fringe of Eastvale’s chic Dale Hill area, sometime after midnight. The man lying on... the carpet was Victor Vancalm, a wealthy local businessman, and a large bloodstain shaped like the Asian subcontinent had spread from his skull and ruined the cream shag carpet.
The stain came from a massive head wound, which had been inflicted with enough force to splinter the cranium and drive several sharp shards of bone into the soft tissue of Victor Vancalm’s brain. Blood spatter on the flocked wallpaper and on other areas of the carpet testified to the power of the blow. A brass-handled poker lay on the carpet not far from the body, surrounded by a red halo, as if it were giving off heat.MoreLess
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