Episode 6 - Mother's pride

Wednesday cont.

Nigel had spread out his notebook on the far table in Gary’s old office. Roger sat down at Gary’s desk from where he could observe Bryn Thomas. He wanted to take a good look at the guy before asking any questions.

Episode 5 - Speculation

Wed cont., breakfast time

Cleo was nervous about phoning Dorothy, despite not believing that she would have gone to the villa at dead of night. Dorothy was justifiably irate at being dragged out of a deep sleep hours before she liked to get up.

“Do you know what time it is, Cleo?”

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?

Episode 1 - Case Histories

Monday, December 14

Starting a new job in mid-December was going to be a trial for newly promoted Superintendent Gary Hurley, and all the more so because his main suspect in his last personally supervised case took her own life rather than facing the music.