Guilty as Charged: Fantastic Crime Stories

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Philip E. High. Guilty as Charged: Fantastic Crime Stories

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For Beverley and Jacqui

There were those, no doubt, who declared I had got away with it, that I was damn lucky. It’s a question of degree, isn’t it? Yes, it is true I could have got life and, in some parts of the world, been executed, but getting away with it, no, most certainly not.

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“Now tell us what bloody happened.” Trench had been waiting for some color to return to Poole’s cheeks.

“I don’t know a lot.” Poole seemed to have got a grip on himself at last. “I was standing over there, facing the sofa, and going through some of my notes when suddenly there was this awful smell. I looked up and, as I did so, the entire room was suddenly filled with a thick gray mist, really thick. I couldn’t see my own hands or the outline of the window: it was near enough darkness to be absolute. I sensed movement like someone moving around. Then there was this funny sound that upset me more than anything, it was sort of half a sob and half a scream. I’m certain it was Hammond but, of course, I can’t prove it, I don’t know.”

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