A Meeting With Murder: Miss Gascoigne mysteries book 1: a traditional romantic cosy mystery set in the swinging 60s by Caron Allan

Author:Caron Allan [Allan, Caron]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-10-07T04:00:00+00:00

That evening, Dee looked at Lily’s two letters, mulling over them long and hard. She knew them by heart now. Not that there had been much to learn, both were short and direct.

The first one, in the usual style of cut out words or single letters from magazines or newspapers, said simply, ‘Your seCREt shame will NOT be a secret no lONger.’

The second, more recent one, said, ‘Your bAstard cHILd will pay for YOUr sin.’

The word bastard had been made up from several sections of type: the b was a separate letter, then the Ast were together, presumably formerly part of a longer word. The next a was a single letter again, then the final two letters, rd, were once more part of the same word, and likewise, the YOU of your was formed of a word in capital letters with an extra lower-case r added to the end.

On the one hand, it was laughable that anyone would think this was still a scandalous secret in the modern era, especially as Lily had indicated that the truth was widely known. But on the other hand, Dee remembered what Cissie had said to her when she first explained about the poison pen letters. It must have been a shock, Dee decided, for Lily to open the envelopes and find these letters inside. To think that someone who knew her, someone familiar whom she no doubt spoke to on a regular basis, had composed these spiteful notes. It wasn’t the content of the letters, it was the fact that they’d come from a friend or neighbour in the village, and intended specifically to cause unhappiness or trouble.

She sat for a long while pondering the letters. At last, she put them away, neatly folding them and slipping them into the zip-up mirror pocket of her handbag for safe keeping. She decided to have an early night.

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