“Another thing you should consider,” said Henry, “is that in a few years’ time, he may well be exchanged for a British agent and repatriated to Russia. What will you do then?”
“Go with him, if he’ll take me,” said Maud.
Henry said, “It’s natural that you should feel like this now. But I do beg you not to isolate yourself. Frank Mason is really a very intelligent young man, you know, under that rather unfortunate manner of his. He asked me if I thought he might come and see you…”
“I won’t be here,” said Maud. “I’m going away.”
“Away?”
“I obviously can’t go back to Bradwood, and I can’t stay here. I wanted to ask you, Inspector Tibbett, do you know to which prison they have taken Julian? Because I shall take a room somewhere nearby and find a job. I suppose they’ll let me visit him.”
“I suppose they will,” said Henry. “But…”
“You needn’t imagine,” said Maud, “that I’m going to fit into your cozy little happy ending.”
“Then I can only hope,” said Henry, “that you find your own.”
His last view of her was standing alone in the big, empty hall with a bowl of chrysanthemums behind her.
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MURDER FANTASTICAL
A Felony & Mayhem mystery
PRINTING HISTORY
First UK edition (Collins): 1967
First US edition (Holt, Rinehart & Winston): 1967
Felony & Mayhem edition: 2018
Copyright © The Estate of Patricia Moyes 1967
All rights reserved
E-book ISBN: 978-1-63194-160-3
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Moyes, Patricia, author.
Title: Murder fantastical / by Patricia Moyes.
Description: Felony & Mayhem edition. | New York : Felony & Mayhem Press, 2018. | “A Felony & Mayhem mystery” --Verso title page. | “First UK edition (Collins): 1967 First US edition (Holt, Rinehart & Winston): 1967” -- Verso title page.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018012269| ISBN 9781631941443 (trade pbk.) | ISBN 9781631941603 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Tibbett, Henry (Fictitious character)--Fiction. | Tibbett, Emmy (Fictitious character)--Fiction. | Married people--Fiction. | Police spouses--Fiction. | Police--Great Britain--Fiction. | England--Fiction. | Domestic fiction. lcsh | GSAFD: Mystery fiction.
Classification: LCC PR6063.O9 M83 2018 | DDC 823/.914--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018012269
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