{"id":254559,"date":"2026-07-13T03:38:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T00:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1kitap1.com\/en\/blood-on-the-banisters-benedict-brown\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T03:38:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T00:38:37","slug":"blood-on-the-banisters-benedict-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1kitap1.com\/en\/blood-on-the-banisters-benedict-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood On The Banisters – Benedict Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lovebrook had apparently found the confidence to ask a question. \u201cIt would appear that you don\u2019t have a particularly high opinion of Lord Ruskin. Is that correct?\u201d \u201cI 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\u2019d have made a terrible brother-in-law.\u201d I felt just a trifle left out so added something to the conversation. \u201cHow did Lord Ruskin come to ask for your sister\u2019s hand in marriage?\u201d<\/p>\n

Charles rolled his eyes as though to say, I thought we were supposed to be talking about me. \u201cHis 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPopping?\u201d My grandfather injected so much disapproval into the word I\u2019m surprised he didn\u2019t just growl at the man. \u201cThe question, dear fellow! He asked my sister to marry him just months before she left home.\u201d \u201cAnd what did Cassandra think of him?\u201d He looked across at my grandfather even as he answered me. \u201cI 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\u2019s clutches.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lord Edgington took the reins once more. \u201cBut the Duchess refused the match, and the engagement was called off for good.\u201d \u201cIt was never on, in fact. Mother wasn\u2019t about to let Damian get his grimy hands on Cassie. I truly believe that she saw her daughter\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

To make up for Cassandra\u2019s disappointment \u2013 and avoid any tantrums \u2013 she allowed my sister to go to university.\u201d 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\u2019t come, and Grandfather said it for me.<\/p>\n

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author\u2019s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Copyright \u00a9 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.<\/p>\n

Cover design by info@amapopico.com 1kitap1.com\/en Contents Reader\u2019s 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 \u201cLord Edgington Investigates\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Get another Lord Edgington adventure About This Book The most interesting things I discovered when researching this book\u2026 Acknowledgements The \u201cBlood on the Banisters\u201d 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

In this book, Christopher\u2019s soppy brother Albert is about to get married. At the back of the book, you\u2019ll 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!<\/p>\n

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\u2019s wedding were well underway. Albert\u2019s fianc\u00e9e, Cassandra Fairfax, had chosen her dress.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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