Excerpts from the Book 'The Murder In Saltashe Woods':

... Everyone knows that Skin o' my Tooth is totally unacquainted with the use of kid gloves. He works for the best of his client let the other side ...
... The unfortunate man was cashier to Messrs. Kelly and Co., the great wine merchants so Mr. Kelly, of Saltashe Park, also Mr. Edward Kelly, ...
... learned gentlemen gave it as their opinion that deceased met his death through the discharge of small shot fired from a rifle at a distance of not more ...
... for it had leaked out earlier in the day that the dead dog found in the pond was Rags, Mr. Edward Kelly's well-known black retriever. ...
... let Mr. Edward Kelly account for his actions.' A deadly silence followed, and then a muttered curse from somewhere among the crowd. ...
... the only witness who had seen Mr. Edward Kelly entering the wood was not ready to swear whether he had his dog with him or not. Though ...
... you had better call a hansom we can go down to Pashet this afternoon. Edward Kelly is out on bail, and Mr. Kelly tells me that I shall find him at ...
... to say more then, as we found that, by hurrying, we could catch the 1.5 p.m. train to Pashet. We found Mr. Edward Kelly at Wood Cottage, a pretty ...
... drawn on the firm must bear both our signatures. It was just a month before the half-yearly settlement of accounts. Whadcoat, it appears, ...
... was viewing him with a certain amount of irritability. Well, Mr. Mulligan? he said at last, with nervous impatience. Well, ...
... made a great point of the fact that Mr. Whadcoat and Rags had been killed by the same rifle and at the same time and place, and the one point in ...
... from him that cheques on Kelly and Co.'s account, perfectly en r`egle, and made out to E. de Kerhoet, or Bearer, had been cashed on certain dates which ...
... name Van Wort, Turf Commission Agent, Flushing, Holland. I thanked the cashier and took my leave. When I got back to the ...
... Anne terrace. The mistress of the house-an exceedingly beautiful woman, received us with every mark of eagerness and cordiality. ...
... went out with his gun in the afternoon, 'Rags' followed him, whilst M. de Kerhoet and I went on to a garden-party. And what happened ...
... seemed too horrible to bear this young wife so hopelessly and innocently denouncing her own husband with every word she uttered. I looked up at the motionless ...
... I offered to leave the room, but Mr. Kelly motioned me to stay. The servants would wonder, he said icily, and it really does not matter. ...
... by confiding it to a stranger. I had had many losses on the turf, he said, and had made my loses good by defrauding our firm. It was a ...
... little frightened at first of any complications that might arise, he had said nothing about the accident at the time then, when his own brother became ...
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