Murder on Several Occasions by Jonathan Goodman

Author:Jonathan Goodman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kent State University Press

There is a final—one could say unforgivable—coincidence to be mentioned. In September 1937, Robert Donaldson took a well-earned holiday. He went motoring in Scotland. On the way home, he parked his car near the border town of Moffatt and sat on the bridge over Gardenholme Linn for a quiet smoke. Beneath the bridge, tucked well out of sight, were some of the neatly parcelled remains of Dr. Buck Ruxton’s common-law wife, his children’s nursemaid, Mary Rogerson. By the time Donaldson reported back to Scotland Yard, those parcels and others had been discovered, and it goes without saying that it was he who was put in charge of the London end of the inquiry into the north-country variant on bodies-as-baggage. Though not a superstitious man, he must have been at least slightly worried when he learnt that Dr. Ruxton, guilty beyond doubt, was to be defended by Norman Birkett, the trial barrister who had been so helpful to Toni Mancini. But no: this time Birkett’s client was found guilty and was duly hanged.

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