Episode 4 - The body in the library

Wednesday December 16, the small hours

Until 3 a.m. the cottage was at peace. Everyone was asleep, as befits the middle of the night.

What does not fit in with nocturnal peace and quiet is the loud ring of the house phone, situated strategically on Cleo’s side of the bed. While Gary buried his head in his pillow and told Cleo to ignore the ring, Cleo put her night light on, sat up in bed and answered it.

Episode 3 - Nigel

Tuesday, December 15

Nigel was delighted to be invited to supper at the cottage that evening. He had gone through two days of agony as Gary swapped his beloved office for a bigger one on the 3^rd floor. Nigel thought that Gary being a brand new Superintendent was a pain. To make matters worse, Greg Winter had opted out for a whole week – unforgiveable in the circumstances, since Gary was obliged to do his work, no one else being available.

Episode 2 - Respectability onn trial

Monday, Dec. 14 cont. then Tuesday

Cleo thought a lot about Dorothy’s tale of woe, especially about Jane’s slip of the tongue that someone else was helping her, or even forcing her to make mischief. She could remember when Jim, Jane’s sadly deceased spouse, got agitated with Jane for taking up with murky people selling things at the door. He had never got on with her high principles that weren’t high at all, but based on pig-headedness and hypocrisy, and now she was unloading her own bias on Dorothy. If the whole silly business was instigated by someone else, who was it and why?