The Murder League by Robert L. Fish

Author:Robert L. Fish
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Published: 1968-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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The error into which Briggs and Simpson had fallen, of course, was in assuming that only the Scottish and the Welsh were mentally attuned to prognosticative forebodings. Had they been better grounded in their esoterics, they might have known that the majority of horses kept on the farms surrounding Hull are believed to be descendants of kelpies, and the whistling that is heard in the shrouds of ships alongside the Hull quay in reality comes from undines who like to whistle.

Aware of these facts, they might have exhibited less tendency to scoff at Carruthers’ auguries; they might even have forgotten the tenth case and have been satisfied with the nine thousand and forty pounds, eight shillings and fivepence. But they weren’t, and no undine or kelpie came along to advise them. They were therefore forced, together with Carruthers, to discover the full extent of their sophistry in the following morning’s Times.

The headline and article which proved Carruthers’ intuition so correct appeared on the second page, and read:

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