Ill Met by Gaslight: Five Edinburgh Murders

Author:Allan Massie [Massie, Allan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-07-01T16:00:00+00:00

`I might have been sleeping for an hour or more when I was awakened by several severe blows. I got one on the side of my head which knocked me stupid. When I came to myself I could not move my face, and this morning I find my jaw bone out of its place my mouth inside skinned and festering and my face all swollen. The servants who sleep in the next room heard it all, besides the woman to whom the house belongs. They heard him say that he would make mincemeat of me … well mamma if you do not want me to be murdered outright you must see that all I can do is leave him at once. All I hope is that he may go away too. As to getting anything from him impossible. But surely where life is concerned you would never hesitate … I am sorry to trouble you but if he murders me you might have been sorry not to have heard from me….’

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