‘When you return to Guernsey will you not find yourself in trouble? You say they have got the law on their side, and you have defied it. And broken into the Bourgaizes’ house and locked...

‘That fool d’Aurigny had no right to come prying here, and anyway could not have helped you. But as it is he has seen your condition and is welcome to report it. The look of...

Dusk came early that day. The sky had darkened with cloud that only increased the sticky oppressiveness of the heat. And Bourgaize had not yet put new glass in the window but had nailed boards...

‘You are not suggesting that I murdered my father with poison?’ ‘I am saying only what others might say – people with more suspicious minds than Dr Falla. It is known your father made a...

Mrs Jelain smiled. ‘Why, child, you must not mind us! We are your family. And although I was anxious to find out how you were, I cannot stay long. Dr Falla visited us last evening,...

In plain words, she was to be a prisoner here. She felt fear rise again, and fought it down. She asked him: ‘How long a time?’ He merely smiled and shrugged. ‘Until I consent to...

‘My pocket-book, Aunt Jeanne – it is not in the drawer where I left it.’ ‘Is it not? But perhaps you left it at Beauregard?’ ‘I am sure I did not. I can remember bringing...

‘I have been here a week. In another week I shall leave – this house and the island – to return to London. I am determined on it.’ ‘As you wish. You are welcome to...

When she came down he had the horse saddled and ready at the door. Now the mist was white in its entirety, and there was sunlight on the field across which its upper boundary lay....

‘I thought she would come back,’ her father said. ‘I did not seek after her because of that, and because of pride. It was not a fitting thing for a man to hunt a straying...