The Quick And the Dead (A Sister Agnes Mystery)
“The day was warm and still, and Agnes had a headache, brought on by the drive from London and now made worse by the hopelessness of the task before her. She looked at the documents she’d called up, maps, school rolls, the OAPs essay competition again, the land tax register … Needles in bloody haystacks, she thought. Emily Quislan, where the hell are you?
She turned once more to the competition and pulled out all the essays catalogued under Broxted. She flicked past the familiar ones, the wi...tch buried in Harton’s field, the blackberries on the swamp field. She found one about com dollies. ‘… My grandmother used to weave a particular shape which she said originated in Broxted. She used to hang one over the lintel on the full moon, to protect her from the ghost, she said. Once I asked her which ghost, and she said the lady in the long dress who rides side-saddle across Harton’s field sprinkling sweet herbs …’ The sheaf of papers fell from Agnes’s grasp in a rustling heap, causing the reader opposite her to look up.MoreLess
She turned once more to the competition and pulled out all the essays catalogued under Broxted. She flicked past the familiar ones, the wi...tch buried in Harton’s field, the blackberries on the swamp field. She found one about com dollies. ‘… My grandmother used to weave a particular shape which she said originated in Broxted. She used to hang one over the lintel on the full moon, to protect her from the ghost, she said. Once I asked her which ghost, and she said the lady in the long dress who rides side-saddle across Harton’s field sprinkling sweet herbs …’ The sheaf of papers fell from Agnes’s grasp in a rustling heap, causing the reader opposite her to look up.MoreLess
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