Dorset Murders by Nicola Sly

Author:Nicola Sly
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Dorset Murders
ISBN: 9780752483917
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2012-02-21T00:00:00+00:00

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‘YOU WOULDN’T CHEAT ME, WOULD YOU?’

Poole, 1925

It as perhaps a measure of the unhappiness of Frederick Young’s home life that a stay in the Royal Victoria Hospital in Bournemouth with an injured hand seemed to him like a relaxing holiday. Young, aged forty-six, lived cheerlessly in Francis Road, Branksome, with a wife who was seriously mentally ill and their one son, Alfred, who worked as an errand boy. Yet a break from his work and his clinically insane wife were not the only attractions of the hospital stay for Young – the main highlight was a shapely twenty-one-year-old nurse, Flossie Davies.

Flossie had recently moved to Bournemouth from her native Wales to make a new start, having been jilted by the love of her life. Hence, she was still new to the area and rather lonely and, seeing that Fred Young never received any visitors, she made a special effort to be nice to him. Before long, she was visiting him on her days off. To Flossie, there was something reassuringly safe about Young, who was more than twice her age. Soon, she found herself falling in love with him and offering to live with him when he left hospital.

With his crippled hand preventing him from working, Young took her up on her offer without hesitation. To his neighbours, it was a perfectly respectable arrangement – Young had simply employed a nurse to look after his sick wife. To his son, Alfred, the arrangement was not as respectable as it might outwardly seem, since his Dad and his new ‘Auntie Flossie’ were sharing a bedroom. Flossie would not immediately agree to share Fred’s bed, while his wife slept alone in a different room. However, Fred pleaded and cajoled and swore undying love for her in order to persuade her, and eventually she capitulated for fear of losing him. Yet although she and Fred became lovers, Flossie’s strict religious upbringing meant that, even while they shared the most intimate moments, she could not forgive herself for committing what she saw as a terrible sin.

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