A Killer In The Wings – Benedict Brown

Go home and get some sleep. I will report back to Chief Inspector Darrington on your behalf.” As the junior officer marched towards the public exit, Grandfather issued some orders to me. “I would appreciate it if you could find Brian Grimage’s dressing room and check that he hasn’t arrived.” “Of course, Superintendent Edgington,” I replied in an imitation of the man who had just left.

“However, I’d appreciate it if you spoke to me as your blood kin rather than a subordinate.” With a cheeky grin on my face, I sped away through the theatre before he could tut at me. There were stairs up to the stage on either side, and I hurried up them and around the scenery so as not to disturb Tallulah Alanson’s interrogation by the fake detective. “I put it to you, Miriam, that you hated your stepmother,” Gabriel practically roared as he stood over the suspect.

“I suggest that you blamed her for your real mother’s untimely death and would have done whatever it took to exact your revenge upon her.” If anything, he sounded more like Lord Edgington than he had the day before. He had evidently taken some notes during the time the two men spent together. “No. That’s not what happened!” Tallulah uttered, and I really believed her pain. “I appreciated dear Emilia. She raised me as her own daughter, and I would never have hurt her.

I simply couldn’t do such a thing!” Inspector L’Estrange was quick to cut through her argument. “You appreciated her, and yet you didn’t love her. Is that how the land lies?” I watched the scene for a moment, then cut through the backstage area where a woman in a thick cardigan was sitting in case the actors forgot their lines. She was approximately ninety, and the lenses on her glasses were as thick as Bibles.

Even if she had been there on the day that Peter Canning was killed, it seemed unlikely that she would have seen much. Marmaduke was waiting to come on as P.C.

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 September 2023 Cover design by [email protected] 1kitap1.com/en Contents Reader’s Note Prologue 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 Chapter Thirty-Seven “Lord Edgington Investigates…”

Get another Lord Edgington adventure About This Book The most interesting things I discovered when researching this book… Acknowledgements The “A Killer in the Wings” Cocktail Words and References you Might Not Know About Me Character List 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 Welcome to another “Lord Edgington Investigates…” mystery. This book is really two mysteries rolled into one. You have the main narrative featuring my detective and his loyal grandson, Christopher, but there is also the play that is being put on in Daly’s Theatre that we slowly get a sense of as the story develops.

With the dual identities that the actors all have, the character list at the very back of this book may come in handy. You will also find a glossary of antiquated, unusual and dialect words, a list of some interesting historical facts and an explanation of my reasons for writing. As with all the books in the series so far, this is a spoiler-free story and does not give away the names of the killers in the previous mysteries. 1kitap1.com/en Prologue “I don’t believe you ever loved me.” The woman’s tortured voice rang out around us, and every last person watching just froze.

Her make-up had run so that a thick black line descended from either eye. Soaked by the storm that was raging through the window behind him, her husband put both hands out to reason with her. “Darling, let’s talk about this.

This is a short excerpt from the opening of “” by Unknown, quoted for review and introduction purposes. All rights belong to the copyright holders.

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