The Wrong Rite (2012)
“Now that he’d burned his bridges, Tom wasn’t bothering to be civil to his stepsister. “You appear to be taking one hell of a lot for granted. Why should there have been any connection between Arthur’s death and Mary’s, shall we say, fund-raising activities? The French police, not to mention the French juge d’instruction, decided he’d simply been mugged and robbed according to time-honored local custom by some thug who either knew he’d be carrying valuable gemstones with him or else just happene...d into a stroke of luck. Why can’t you accept their verdict, for God’s sake?”
“Because it wasn’t that simple.”
“All right, Lisa. I grant you the whole business was a ghastly horror story, but why turn it into a long-running serial? Mary could have been lying when she told her brother the money was coming in on account of Arthur. If brother Bob had her booked for Ostend that day, I for one can’t picture her slapping on a false mustache and chugging off to Marseilles after Arthur, much less her knowing which of its many bawdy houses he’d be most apt to frequent.”MoreLess
“Because it wasn’t that simple.”
“All right, Lisa. I grant you the whole business was a ghastly horror story, but why turn it into a long-running serial? Mary could have been lying when she told her brother the money was coming in on account of Arthur. If brother Bob had her booked for Ostend that day, I for one can’t picture her slapping on a false mustache and chugging off to Marseilles after Arthur, much less her knowing which of its many bawdy houses he’d be most apt to frequent.”MoreLess
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