The Box Contains One Occupant
The summons arrived at half past midnight, which Mr. Cornelius Fetch considered an entirely unreasonable hour for any errand of a clerical nature, and from Mrs.…
Dr. H. Ashford
The summons arrived at half past midnight, which Mr. Cornelius Fetch considered an entirely unreasonable hour for any errand of a clerical nature, and from Mrs.…
Dr. H. Ashford
The call came at twenty past midnight, which Dr. Edmund Prale considered an objectionable hour for any summons that was not, strictly speaking, a matter of imme…
Dr. H. Ashford
The commission arrived on a Saturday, which Mr. Aldous Fenn considered unusual, and from the Reverend Josias Carne of St. Dunstan's, Morbridge, which he conside…
Dr. H. Ashford
The telegram reached Dr. Percival Oates on a Thursday evening, which was inconvenient, and from Dunmore-on-Severn, which was worse. He had retired from the prac…
Dr. H. Ashford
The house appeared first as a smear of yellow light through the coach window, and Miss Evelyn Marsh — thirty-one years old, recently widowed by a man she had mo…
Dr. H. Ashford
The summons came at half past ten, which Dr. Ashford considered an unconscionable hour for any communication that was not, strictly speaking, a matter of life a…
Dr. H. Ashford
The bell cord moved at midnight. Mrs. Agatha Crale had not imagined it. She had been awake — as she was most nights in Thornward Manor, where the damp came in o…
Dr. H. Ashford
The chapel of St. Crispin-Without-the-Walls had never been a comforting building, even in daylight, even in summer, even when its organ was being played with so…
Dr. H. Ashford
The rain had been falling since Hexham, and by the time Mr. Gerald Poole arrived at the gates of Varden House, it had achieved a quality less like weather than …
Dr. H. Ashford
The telegram arrived at half past two on a Thursday afternoon, which meant that Dr. Ashford had already committed the sin of removing his boots and settling int…
Dr. H. Ashford
From the private diary of Dr. Edmund Caswell, 7th November, 1902. 7th November — past midnight — Thornbury Grange, Wiltshire I arrived at the Grange at eleven o…
Dr. H. Ashford
The key was on her person when she went to bed. Miss Eunice Fallow was certain of this — as certain as a woman of thirty-two years and modest but rigorous educa…