Then they were at the road between the field and the sea which brought them back to civilisation where there was a caravan park, a small fairground and a slipway to the sea. They turned their back on these delights and made their way up the hill. On the top there was a lonely shack in a field of green. Inside it was a surprisingly […]

“Keep looking unless you’ve finished,” Timonthy said and he went into the study again.  He leant over the open laptop. He was in an e-mail account. There were no personal messages that would have given him a clue to the user’s identity. Paris was right. Someone was doing a lot of shopping and by the look of the e-mails they were mainly garden related orders. […]

He checked the address with the one Miss Gregg had told them and they were the same. He put the letter in his inside pocket, inside the notebook with the train journey details. He was trying to be organised. Surely with an address it would not be hard to find Stolid eventually. Then life could return to something like normal. He had a sudden image […]

and gets exciting in the next instalment. Stay with me. Perhaps I should leave this part out? But it helps to draw out the suspense. *** “That was only Miss Gregg’s opinion,” Paris said. “Do you think she would have thought that, if he hadn’t made an effort to charm her?” Timonthy thought about this. There probably were men who were so naturally good looking […]