![]() The thought of what might be festering behind the closed doors of respectable middle-class homes - scheming servants, rebellious children, insanity, jealousy, loneliness and loathing - arouses fear and a kind of excitement. He faces an unenviable task: to solve a case in which the grieving family are the suspects. Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard, the most celebrated detective of his day, reaches Road Hill House a fortnight later. The household reverberates with shock, not least because the guilty party is surely still among them. The family wakes the next morning to a horrific discovery: an unimaginably gruesome murder has taken place in their home. At some point after midnight a dog barks. Behind shuttered windows the Kent family lies sound asleep. ![]() ![]() In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road, Wiltshire, all is quiet. Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary subjects Hong Kong International Literary Festival 2023.Hong Kong Golden Dragon Books 2022-2023. ![]()
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