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...Hartley grunted and read the fax. “Usual stuff,” he said. “Straight off the train and on the game. So that’s how she paid her rent in Keighworth. A lady with no pence but much presence. ”...
John Waddington-Feather continues his murder mystery tale.
...Over the doors was the Whitcliff coat-of-arms. It re-appeared in various parts of the hall and was conspicuous on the Mausoleum. One of the emblazons was familiar. The shield had two bars. The higher charged with three raised cobras. The lower with three pyramids. Underneath were some hieroglyphics and a motto which had worn away...
Continuing his investigations Inspector Hartley pays a visit to Pithon Hall.
John Waddington-Feather unfolds further clues in his murder mystery.
Inspector Hartley and Sergeant Khan go in search of a missing girl.
John Waddington-Feather continues his intriguing murder mystery story.
Inspector Hartley goes in search of a tramp, hoping for information to help him solve the mystery of the body in the museum.
John Waddington-Feather continues his intriguing tale set in a Yorkshire mill town.
...Her legs were like tree-trunks, thick and mottled with being too close to the fire. She wore knee socks which had rolled down almost to her down-at-heel slippers. She took her hands from under her apron and crossed her arms over her well blessed bosom to make it quite clear they could not enter...
Inspector Hartley goes to the seedier part of town as he continues his investigations into the body-in-the-museum mystery. John Waddington-Feather continues his story.
As he continues his murder investigation Blake Hartley receives a surprise message from the Cairo police.
Master storyteller John Waddington-Feather continues his tale of the museum murder.
...“Hardly curios, inspector,” said Whitcliff with his throaty chuckle.
“They were expensive unguent jars and a dagger. A gold dagger. which he claimed had belonged to the Princess Hathor. It was missing from her tomb when it was opened.''...
John Waddington-Feather continues his murder mystery story.
...The inspector looked at the greasy card and turned it over. The name on it rang a bell but he couldn’t think why. “Silas Blackwell. Taxidermist,” it said on the front, followed by an address. A farm up on the moors near Halifax. On the reverse side, written in pencil and barely legible was a telephone number. He made a note of it and promised Mrs Adams he’d look into the whole business...''
John Waddington-Feather continues his intriguing murder-mystery story.
...There was a message waiting for them at the station. Dr Dunwell had found something on the body of Manasas and wanted them to go immediately to his lab....
John Waddington-Feather continues his murder mystery which is set in a Yorkshire industrial town.
The murk in the murder-in-the-museum case gets even murkier.
Master story-teller John Waddington-Feather continues his mystery story which is set in a northern industrial town.
...“You’re not going to believe this, sir, “ he began, turning to his boss, “but Manasas was working undercover for the Egyptian police. He’s referred to as Major Manasas here. He seems to have been sent here on surveillance.” He put down the fax he was holding. “What are we going to do, sir?” he asked...
John Waddington-Feather continues his murder mystery story.
...He opened the door and stopped dead. Then gasped. The place was in chaos. Drawers had been pulled out and their contents strewn across the room. A steel cabinet near the window had been forced and leaned drunkenly against the wall. The room looked as if it had been hit by a hurricane....
There's a surprise in store for Inspector Hartley when he visits the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies.
John Waddington-Feather continues his intriguing murder mystery.
...After the princess’s burial, young women were selected at intervals as incarnations of the princess in their lifetimes.and when they reached the age the princess had died, they were ritually sacrificed to join her retinue. Like her, they were given the name Hathor, the Egyptian goddess of love and dance, the mistress of the stars. That was the name on the mummy in Keighworth Museum. What surprised the inspector as he read was that the cult still had its followers!...
John Waddington-Feather continues his murder mystery story.
... “Any idea how he got here?” he asked next.
“He certainly didn’t walk,” said the pathologist. “He was dead when he arrived. And by the size of him, I’d say it’d need more than one pair of hands to lug him in.”...
John Waddington-Feather continues his intriguing murder mystery.
...“That’s your business, not mine,” the pathologist replied. “I can say how he was killed.” He held up one of the dead man’s wrists, indicating a weal across the top of it. Then he raised the other wrist and pointed to a similar one there. “He was trussed up tight before he was killed.” He pulled down the corpse’s socks to show similar marks around the ankles. “He wasn’t killed here. Trussed like a lamb for the slaughter…”...
John Waddington-Feather continues his tale featuring Revd Detective Inspector Blake Hartley.
...But it was shortly after dawn one Monday morning when Ernie Hodgson, the janitor, discovered another body on the floor next to it; rather younger than the mummy it lay alongside. Younger by some millennia and freshly murdered...
Master storyteller John Waddington-Feather begins a crime novel which introduces us to
Revd Detective Inspector Blake Hartley.
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