Q.E.D. Healey

Q.E.D. HealeyThe celebrated suspension bridge which crosses Linwood Gorge its chains once spanned the Thames has seen many tragedies in its seventy years, but none more sinister than that with which this latest of Colonel Gores cases concerns itself. You probably haven't heard yet, said the constable with calm matter of factness, Dr. Melhuish was taken out of the river shortly after three o'clock this morning, dead With such mundane yet portentous words begins an

and sneezed

ably assisted by amateur detectives Hope and his fiancée

George Herbert

takes charge with preliminary enquiries

The train rushes on with a rattle and a roar

But the kicker for Gore is that – this time it’s personal

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Instantly becoming the centre of attention

It is this location that acts as the setting for the series of stories originally written for magazines and then collected as Tedious Brief Tales of Granta and Gramarye

The author of over twenty detective stories

is heading home late one night when two men enter his train compartment

But now - what is behind this illicit grave-digging