The East Room Keeps Its Own
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
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…
Dr. H. Ashford
From the private case-notes of Dr. H. Ashford, Physician, 14 Cavendish Square. The following account was entered not as a clinical record — for no clinical cate…
Dr. H. Ashford
The chapel had been sealed for eleven years, which was, in Mr. Oliver Mast's considered professional opinion, approximately eleven years longer than any respons…
Dr. H. Ashford
The bell pull rang at half past two in the morning, which was, Mrs. Dorothea Crane reflected, a thoroughly inconvenient hour for any occurrence whatsoever, supe…
Dr. H. Ashford
The inventory had been assigned to Miss Alderton on a Wednesday, which she considered neither auspicious nor otherwise — she was not, by temperament or training…
Dr. H. Ashford
The body had been found at half past seven in the morning, which was, in Mr. Aldous Pemberton's considerable professional experience, an entirely acceptable hou…
Dr. H. Ashford
The following correspondence was recovered from the effects of Dr. Edmund Carver, formerly of Ashwick-on-Dene, Shropshire. The letters were found in a leather w…
Dr. H. Ashford
The rain had been falling since Thursday, which Miss Clara Voss considered a personal slight. She arrived at the vicarage at half past six in the evening, her s…
Dr. H. Ashford
The coffin arrived on a Tuesday, which was already irregular, as museum deliveries came on Thursdays and the receiving dock was staffed accordingly. Mrs. Cecily…
Dr. H. Ashford
The call came at twelve minutes past midnight, which Mrs. Vera Calloway considered an imposition of the first order. She had been a conservator of decorative ar…
Dr. H. Ashford
The smell reached her before the light did. This is what Mrs. Ruth Ellery recorded in the notebook she kept in her cardigan pocket — the small green Silvine tha…