No Sale by Conrad Patrick

Author:Conrad, Patrick [Conrad, Patrick]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781904738985
Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
Published: 2012-05-22T04:00:00+00:00

For his novel, O’Hara had been inspired by a lurid news item that attracted enormous attention in the press at the time, according to the documentary. On Monday, 8th June 1931, at around six o’clock in the morning, a beachcomber called Daniel Moriarty finds the body of a young woman on Long Beach, New York, half-buried in the soft sand. Her drenched summer dress is clinging to her voluptuous body. She is wearing silk stockings but no underwear. Her nails have been painted bright red. Her expression is serene, as if she is asleep. The sight is both innocent and obscene. At half past nine Inspector Harold King and two detectives from Nassau County examine the body, but do not find any personal papers or jewellery that could reveal her identity. The only clue is an embroidered label in the collar of her dress: Lord & Taylor, an expensive fashion store on Fifth Avenue. King has the remains transferred to the mortuary in Mineola for an initial cursory autopsy. The coroner’s findings can be summed up simply: death by drowning.

In the late afternoon a lanky man in a three-piece suit appears at the Mineola coroner’s office. This man, Stanley Faithfull, claims to have read in the paper that the body of a young woman has been washed up on Long Beach. His stepdaughter has been missing since the previous Friday. Starr Faithfull, twenty-five years old.

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