Three short stories for three nice murders. A murder during a University Summer Course for adults where the murder serves as a diversion to rob two pieces of rococo silver. The murder of a husband whose wife thinks she will inherit a fortune that will allow her to live with her lover, but the lover has a different aim however underestimating the stupidity of the woman. And finally, a husband, persuaded that his wife is having an affair with his baby brother, murders her with the strap of one of her fancy Victoria’s Secret dressing gowns… whilst she was only planning a surprise birthday. I had never read Elizabeth George before but think I will read others. Very interesting little murders with a surprising final twist.
“She deserved, in fact, a man who understood God’s plan when He’d created the first man and woman. He’d used the man’s rib, hadn’t He? In doing that, He’d illustrated for all time that women and men were bound together, women taking their form and substance from their men, living their lives in the service of their men for which their reward was to be sheltered and protected by their men’s superior strength.”
Contents
The Evidence Exposed / I, Richard / The Surprise of his Life