Название: Scales of Justice
Автор: Ngaio Marsh
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Зарубежные детективы
isbn: 9780007344703
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Ngaio Marsh
Scales of Justice
For Stella
CONTENTS
11. Between Hammer and Nunspardon
Nurse Kettle | ||
Mr Octavius Danberry-Phinn | Of Jacob’s Cottage | |
Commander Syce | ||
Colonel Cartarette | Of Hammer Farm | |
Rose Cartarette | His daughter | |
Kitty Cartarette | His wife | |
Sir Harold Lacklander Bt. | Of Nunspardon | |
Lady Lacklander | His wife | |
George Lacklander | Their son | |
Dr Mark Lacklander | George’s son | |
Chief Detective-Inspector Alleyn |
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Detective-Inspector Fox | Of the CID New Scotland Yard | |
Detective-Sergeants Bailey and Thompson | ||
Dr Curtis | Pathologist | |
Sergeant Oliphant |
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Of the Chyning Constabulary |
PC Gripper | ||
Sir James Punston | Chief Constable of Barfordshire |
Nurse Kettle pushed her bicycle to the top of Watt’s Hill and there paused. Sweating lightly, she looked down on the village of Swevenings. Smoke rose in cosy plumes from one or two chimneys; roofs cuddled into surrounding greenery. The Chyne, a trout stream, meandered through meadow and coppice and slid blamelessly under two bridges. It was a circumspect landscape. Not a faux-pas, architectural or horticultural, marred the seemliness СКАЧАТЬ