Excerpts from the Book 'The Regent Park Murder':

... caused in a certain section of London society. The racing and gambling set, particularly, you mean, he said. All the persons implicated in ...
... who were nearly falling out of the upper windows as they shouted out to the constable. 'By the railings, policeman.' 'Higher up ...
... it?' he murmured to his comrade. And he pointed to the swollen tongue, the eyes half out of their sockets, bloodshot and congested, the purple, ...
... the way he went.' 'But not in the fog.' Soon, however, the appearance of the inspector, detective, and medical officer, who ...
... of the Square. It was therefore presumed that the murderer, having accomplished his fell design and ransacked his victim's pockets, ...
... with a lb5 note in his pocket if he made any further extravagant calls upon his paternal indulgence. It was also evident to all John Ashley's ...
... a penny in his pockets, and owing a debt - a gambling debt - a debt of honour of lb1500 to Mr. Aaron Cohen. Now we must render this much maligned ...
... consisted chiefly, it appears, in Walter Hatherell being the willing companion and helpmeet of John Ashley in his mad and extravagant pranks. ...
... work of a novice, and absolutely purposeless, seeing that it could but inevitably leading perpetrators, without any difficulty, to the gallows. ...
... for idiocy of that kind is to my mind worse than many crimes. The prosecution brought its witnesses up in triumphal array one after another. ...
... time that day. There were two faces in court to watch which was the greatest treat I had had for many a day. One of these was Mr. John Ashley's. ...
... by skilful cross-examinations - oh, dear me, no! he had been contented with those of a dull, prosy, very second-rate limb of the law, who, as ...
... of the crime by at least a dozen gentlemen whose testimony was absolutely above suspicion. Mr. John Ashley's conduct throughout this astonishing ...
... found on the actual scene of the crime finally I parted from Mr. Cohen a very few minutes after I had heard the church clock striking a quarter ...
... - But that's just it, he quietly interrupted, you don't know - Mr. Walter Hatherell, of course, you mean. So did every one else at ...
... from Hanover Square to Regent's Park without the chance of cutting across the squares, to look for a man, whose whereabouts you could not determine ...
... Mr. John Ashley, for his was the head which planned the whole thing, but he could not have accomplished the fascinating and terrible drama without ...
... Funnell has passed on, John Ashley, having opened the gate, lifts the body of Aaron Cohen in his arms and carries him across the Square. The Square ...
... and yet, somehow, she felt that he had solved once again one of the darkest mysteries of great criminal London. Recommended ReadingAre you ...
... When the maid hears an argument in the study it isn't long before the brother dies... of a bullet between the eyes! Strangely, the study has ...