By P.D. James
ISBN-10: 0862202574
ISBN-13: 9780862202576
Sally Jupp was once a sly and sensuous younger lady who used her physique and her brains to make her approach up the social ladder. Now she lies throughout her mattress with darkish bruises from a strangler’s palms endlessly marring her lily-white throat.Someone has determined that the wages of sin will be death...And it truly is as much as leader Inspector Adam Dalgliesh to determine who that somebody is.
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If I'd known he was going to be so late it would have been different. I usually go up to bed about ten when Mr. Proctor's out. Mind you, there's not the same rush on a Sunday morning, but I was never one for late nights. That's what I told the police. (I was never one for late nights,' I said. They were asking about Mr. Proctor's accident, too. The inspector was very sympathetic. 'Not home until nearly twelve,' I told them. " ‹(I expect Mr. Proctor woke you when he arrived home. " "Oh, it was! I heard him in the bathroom and when I called out he came in to me.
That's right. " The boy used this last word self-consciously as if it were one he had only recently known and had not used before. "You know, I doubt whether they'd understand what that word means. Perhaps people have rather nasty minds, but then it's surprising how often the nastiness is justified. I don't think Sally Jupp was being very fair to you when she used these stables as a retreat from Martingale. " "Yes, I suppose so," The boy looked away unhappily and Dalgleish waited. He felt that there was still something to be explained but that Pullen was enmeshed in his own inarticulateness and frustrated with the difficulty of explaining the girl he had known, alive, gay and foolhardy, to two officers of police who had never even met her.
We may find out this afternoon how far the police have got and how much they're prepared to tell. " But the inquest was both a relief and a disappointment. The coroner sat without a jury. He was a mild-voiced man with the face of a depressed St. Bernard dog who gave the impression of having wandered into the proceedings by mistake. For all that, he knew what he wanted and he wasted no time. There were fewer villagers present than the Maxies had expected. Probably they were conserving time and energy for the better entertainment of the funeral.
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