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Cyril Hare. Tragedy at Law
Tragedy at Law
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. NO TRUMPETERS
Chapter 2. LUNCH AT THE LODGINGS
Chapter 3. A DINNER AND ITS SEQUEL
Chapter 4. AFTERMATH OF AN ACCIDENT
Chapter 5. LADY BARBER
Chapter 6. CIVIL ACTION
Chapter 7. CHEMICAL REACTION
Chapter 8. ON TO WIMBLINGHAM
Chapter 9. A BLOW IN THE DARK
Chapter 10. TEA AND THEORY
Chapter 11. WHISKY AND REMINISCENCE
Chapter 12. SOMEONE HAS TALKED
Chapter 13. CAT AND MOUSE
Chapter 14. REFLECTIONS AND REACTIONS
Chapter 15. INSIDE OR OUTSIDE?
Chapter 16. GAS
Chapter 17. REFLECTIONS
Chapter 18. REX v. OCKENHURST
Chapter 19. THE END OF THE CIRCUIT
Chapter 20. TOUCH AND GO
Chapter 21. END OF A CAREER
Chapter 22. THE FORCES IN CONFERENCE
Chapter 23. INQUIRIES IN THE TEMPLE
Chapter 24. EXPLANATIONS IN THE TEMPLE
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Cyril Hare
Published by Good Press, 2022
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Now there are certain things which in a well-conducted world simply do not occur. In a well-conducted world His Majesty's Judges of assize do not drive their own cars while on circuit. They employ the services of competent professionals supplied and paid by the county whose guests they happen to be. Further, if they do so far forget their dignity as to act as their own chauffeurs--for, after all, they are but human and may be permitted to enjoy driving as much as lesser mortals--they do not do so in the black-out, on a wet, moonless night, and after imbibing rather more than the customary allowance of old brandy. Finally, at all times and seasons, it may be taken for granted that they drive with the utmost care and circumspection. It has regretfully to be recorded that in this, as in so many other instances, the world proved to be somewhat worse conducted than it is popularly supposed to be.
The accident happened at the junction of High Street and Market Place, just after the car had taken the sharp right-hand turn necessary to bring it round the corner. Pettigrew, who was sitting alone in the back, was never able to say with precision exactly what occurred. He was first shaken out of a doze by being thrown sideways in his seat as the car swung round, then heard the squeal from the ball-bearings telling him that the corner had been taken too fast, and finally awoke to full consciousness with the realization that the back wheels were sliding over to the left in a violent skid. A moment later the car struck the nearside kerb with an impact that pitched him headlong into the back of the driver's seat. And that, as he frequently had occasion to remind himself later on, was absolutely all that he knew about it. He would be wholly useless as a witness. That was some comfort.
