Blood On The Banisters – Benedict Brown

Lovebrook had apparently found the confidence to ask a question. “It would appear that you don’t have a particularly high opinion of Lord Ruskin. Is that correct?” “I have a perfectly high opinion of him when it comes to organising a party or needing a friend with which to drink away my sorrows. Damian is a wonderful bachelor, but he’d have made a terrible brother-in-law.” I felt just a trifle left out so added something to the conversation. “How did Lord Ruskin come to ask for your sister’s hand in marriage?”

Charles rolled his eyes as though to say, I thought we were supposed to be talking about me. “His father was a friend of the family. We saw a lot of him when I was a child. And then, after the war, he found himself enamoured of the beauteous ingenue whom we all adore. In his defence, he at least waited until she was old enough to have an opinion on the matter before popping.”

“Popping?” My grandfather injected so much disapproval into the word I’m surprised he didn’t just growl at the man. “The question, dear fellow! He asked my sister to marry him just months before she left home.” “And what did Cassandra think of him?” He looked across at my grandfather even as he answered me. “I imagine she saw him as a way out of this bedlam. To be frank, I would have married him myself if I could have escaped my mother’s clutches.”

Lord Edgington took the reins once more. “But the Duchess refused the match, and the engagement was called off for good.” “It was never on, in fact. Mother wasn’t about to let Damian get his grimy hands on Cassie. I truly believe that she saw her daughter’s only value as the marriage she would make. Damian could offer neither high rank nor a connection to a wealthy family, and so Mother thwarted his plans.

To make up for Cassandra’s disappointment – and avoid any tantrums – she allowed my sister to go to university.” Though the other detectives had taken a seat on the sofa, I stood behind them, watching the interview unfold. There was a point I considered making just then, but the words wouldn’t come, and Grandfather said it for me.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Copyright © 2023 by Benedict Brown All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any manner without written permission of the copyright owner except for the use of quotations in a book review. First edition June 2023 Hinwick House photograph courtesy of the kind owners of www.hiniwckhouse.org.

Cover design by [email protected] 1kitap1.com/en Contents Reader’s Note Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Chapter Ten Chapter Eleven Chapter Twelve Chapter Thirteen Chapter Fourteen Chapter Fifteen Chapter Sixteen Chapter Seventeen Chapter Eighteen Chapter Nineteen Chapter Twenty Chapter Twenty-One Chapter Twenty-Two Chapter Twenty-Three Chapter Twenty-Four Chapter Twenty-Five Chapter Twenty-Six Chapter Twenty-Seven Chapter Twenty-Eight Chapter Twenty-Nine Chapter Thirty Chapter Thirty-One Chapter Thirty-Two Chapter Thirty-Three Chapter Thirty-Four Chapter Thirty-Five Chapter Thirty-Six “Lord Edgington Investigates…”

Get another Lord Edgington adventure About This Book The most interesting things I discovered when researching this book… Acknowledgements The “Blood on the Banisters” Cocktail Words and References you Might Not Know Character List About Me 1kitap1.com/en For my father, Kevin, I hope you would have liked this book an awful lot. 1kitap1.com/en 1kitap1.com/en Reader’s Note I try to write the books in this series so that new readers can enjoy them without having read any of the previous ones. All you need to know is that Lord Edgington is a legendary former police officer who investigates murders with his slowly improving assistant, his grandson Christopher.

In this book, Christopher’s soppy brother Albert is about to get married. At the back of the book, you’ll find a character list, a glossary of unusual words from the period, and two whole chapters on my historical research and inspiration when writing this book. I hope you absolutely love it!

1kitap1.com/en Chapter One At the beginning of 1927, the winter seemed to last forever. It was almost June before the spring really made itself known to the world and, by that time, the arrangements for my brother’s wedding were well underway. Albert’s fiancée, Cassandra Fairfax, had chosen her dress.

Whole fields of flowers had been ordered to decorate the church, and I was trying my hardest to understand what being a best man actually entailed. The most difficult task, however, had been delayed, put off and finally postponed until it could wait no longer.

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