Classic Cambridge Murder Mysteries – VC Clinton – Baddeley

Cupressus Macrocarpa is a tree. Plant it too far apart and it doesn’t make a hedge. Plant it close and every fifth tree dies, and the rest go brown at the base and thin. The macrocarpa hedge, if ever it makes a hedge, is a prime horticultural mistake which hundreds of gardeners continue to make in spite of the appalling warnings which neighbouring gardens afford.

Somehow they always suppose — how vainly! — that their hedge will be different. The hedge that skirted Potter Road was not different. It was a shaggy, half-brown abomination. “Ugliest of trees,” Davie murmured, “the macrocarpa now Is hung with rust along the bough, All along the garden side, Wearing brown for Eastertide.” At the gate he hesitated. It bore four very ancient and chipped injunctions — “No Hawkers”, “No Circulars”, “Shut the Gate” and “Beware of the Dog”.

Hawkers? Hawkers were a forgotten race. And as for the dog, Davie did not believe there was one, or if there were, he was probably an ancient spaniel with great floppy ears, amiably disposed to master and burglar alike. He opened the gate and walked in. Once there had been a garden here. There were beds full of rose bushes. But the bushes were unpruned and the grass was a foot high.

There were daffodils blossoming unbidden in a corner. There was a thickly crammed border of irises. In its way it was beautiful, and mysterious as an early poem by Tennyson. At the end of a broken asphalt path stood the vicarage, nineteenth- century ecclesiastical in style and flaunting the horrible decoration of domestic stained glass, not only in the panels of the front door, but as a framework to the gothic windows. What was presumably the downstairs lavatory was so adorned that it looked like the window of a private oratory.

Around the porch grew a huge wisteria. In a few weeks it would be what Mrs Tibbs called a picture. Davie looked at his watch. It was nine-thirty.

Book 1: DEATH’S BRIGHT DART Book 2: MY FOE OUTSTRETCH’D BENEATH THE TREE Book 3: ONLY A MATTER OF TIME Book 4: NO CASE FOR THE POLICE 1kitap1.com/en This box set was first published in 2023 Joffe Books, London www.joffebooks.com Death’s Bright Dart was first published in Great Britain in 1964 My Foe Outstretch’d Beneath the Tree was first published in Great Britain in 1968 Only a Matter of Time was first published in Great Britain in 1969 No Case for the Police was first published in Great Britain in 1970 © The Estate of V.C.

Clinton-Baddeley This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places and events are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental. The spelling used is British English except where fidelity to the author’s rendering of accent or dialect supersedes this.

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BOOK 1: DEATH’S BRIGHT DART Note to the Reader St Nicholas’s College: Key Map Cambridge Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday London Friday Saturday Sunday Ischia Cambridge Author’s Note BOOK 2: MY FOE OUTSTRETCH’D BENEATH THE TREE Note to the Reader Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Appendix BOOK 3: ONLY A MATTER OF TIME Note to the Reader Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday BOOK 4: NO CASE FOR THE POLICE Note to the Reader One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Love Free Bestselling Fiction?

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