The Riddle of the River by Catherine Shaw

Author:Catherine Shaw [Catherine Shaw]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780749016661
Publisher: Allison & Busby
Published: 2013-09-21T16:00:00+00:00

Ivy?? Ivy? Ivy! Was it possible?

Ivy is a fairly common name.

And yet, there was a connection between Ivy Elliott and Heffers bookshop. Mr Archer himself constituted a connection. Mr Archer’s son constituted a connection. Was I mistaken, or did he not live just upstairs, over the shop? I will see you in a moment…

Of course, the letter might not have been written in Heffers – might not have been written moments before her death at the hands of her murderer. Yet as I stared down at the simple words, I felt that it must have been. For clearly, tomorrow and its truth had never come. And whatever that truth might have been, was it not also the cause and reason of her murder? Could Julian Archer have promised to marry her, and have murdered her instead?

I felt an anxious tugging at my skirt, and looked down. Cedric was waiting for the return of his treasure, his eyes anxious, his hand outstretched.

‘Mamma needs to keep this,’ I told him, bending down to speak to him face to face. ‘You’re a good boy to have found this wonderful thing. Will you give it to Mamma as a present?’

He looked up at me, his generous little heart already willing, though still slightly suspicious.

‘Can I still have a bun?’ he asked timidly but hopefully. ‘With raisins in it?’

‘Raisins in it, and sugar on top!’ I promised, tucking the letter away. ‘Let’s go and get it this very minute.’

A three-and-a-half-year-old man is still a man, and we have all been told a thousand times that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.

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