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The Harvest Murder. E-book. Formato EPUB John Rhode - Librorium Editions, 2025 -
Under ordinary circumstances Sergeant Wragge would have greatly resented being disturbed at the untimely hour of nine o’clock on Sunday morning. But past experience had taught him that hop picking time was altogether exceptional. Almost anything might be expected to happen while it continued. And on this particular morning, September first, hop picking had been in progress for about a week. The effect of the hop picking season upon a little place like Culverden must be emphasized at the outset. For a period of three or four weeks every year the normal quietude of the countryside is completely shattered. An influx of townsfolk, far outnumbering the regular inhabitants, descends upon it.
The murders in Praed Street. E-book. Formato EPUB John Rhode - Librorium Editions, 2024 -
Praed Street is not at any time one of London’s brighter thoroughfares. Certainly it ends upon a note of hope, terminating as it does on the fringe of the unquestioned respectability of Bayswater, but for the rest of its course it is frankly lamentable. Narrow, bordered by small and often furtive shops, above which the squalid looking upper parts are particularly uninviting, it can never have been designed as more than a humble annexe of its more prosperous parent, the Edgware Road. And then, for no apparent reason, the Great Western Railway planted its terminus upon it, and Praed Street found itself called upon to become a main artery of traffic.