Trouble in the Town Hall (2012)
“By Saturday, having gotten exactly nowhere with a solution to the murder, and chafing under the delay with my housing problem, I was more than ready to spend the weekend with American friends in London, celebrating the Fourth of July.
It did me good. The Andersons are two of my favorite people, and the party was marvelous. Tom is some sort of exalted vice president of a multinational with a lot of American employees in London, and every July 4 they throw a big shindig at the company headquarters, a country estate on the Thames. A picnic, brass bands, fireworks—the whole bit, including a tour of the mansion. I hadn’t liked the idea of a big manor house being turned into offices, but after I saw how tastefully it had been done, I came back to Sherebury on Monday morning thoughtfully considering a new aspect of the preservation question. Surely it was better to put a glorious old house to a new use than to let it decay because no family could afford to live there anymore.
Much as I detes...ted Pettifer’s plan, it was sounding more and more logical.MoreLess
It did me good. The Andersons are two of my favorite people, and the party was marvelous. Tom is some sort of exalted vice president of a multinational with a lot of American employees in London, and every July 4 they throw a big shindig at the company headquarters, a country estate on the Thames. A picnic, brass bands, fireworks—the whole bit, including a tour of the mansion. I hadn’t liked the idea of a big manor house being turned into offices, but after I saw how tastefully it had been done, I came back to Sherebury on Monday morning thoughtfully considering a new aspect of the preservation question. Surely it was better to put a glorious old house to a new use than to let it decay because no family could afford to live there anymore.
Much as I detes...ted Pettifer’s plan, it was sounding more and more logical.MoreLess
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