Waiting for Orders (2012)
“For that reason alone, the case would be worth reporting. The conversion of an Assistant-Commissioner of New Scotland Yard into an ordinary human being must be reckoned a major triumph of the power of reason over the force of habit. But the case has another claim to the interest of students of criminology in general and, in particular, of those who contemplate committing murders of their own. It demonstrated clearly that the first requisite for the committal of a perfect murder is the omniscien...ce of a god.
The world first heard of the death of Felton Spenser late one January evening, and through the medium of one of the BBC’s news bulletins. ‘We regret,’ said the announcer, in funereal tones, ‘to announce the death in London tonight of Mr Felton Spenser, the poet. He was fifty-three. Although Mr Spenser was born in Manchester, the early years of his life were spent in the county of Flint, and it was in praise of the Flint countryside and scenery that much of his poetry was written.MoreLess
The world first heard of the death of Felton Spenser late one January evening, and through the medium of one of the BBC’s news bulletins. ‘We regret,’ said the announcer, in funereal tones, ‘to announce the death in London tonight of Mr Felton Spenser, the poet. He was fifty-three. Although Mr Spenser was born in Manchester, the early years of his life were spent in the county of Flint, and it was in praise of the Flint countryside and scenery that much of his poetry was written.MoreLess
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