Colonel Anthony Gethryn is convalescing at an inn called The Spanish Guardsman at Ford-under-Stapleton when he receives a letter from an anonymous person stating that Gethryn cannot put wool over their eyes and that he is actually there not because of his ill-health but because he wants to save a woman whom the letter-writer refers … Continue reading Friday’s Forgotten Book: Rope to Spare by Philip MacDonald (1932)
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Eavesdropping: The Nursemaid who Disappeared by Philip MacDonald (1938)
Tom Sheldon Garrett, American playwright, finds himself in a teashop, eavesdropping on a conversation happening in the next booth b/w two women, one who has a masculine timber to her voice while the other has a gentle, tremulous one. Through the conversation Garrett is able to make out that they are discussing the kidnapping of … Continue reading Eavesdropping: The Nursemaid who Disappeared by Philip MacDonald (1938)
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