Every Second Thursday

Every Second Thursday
Emma Page

A Kesley and Lambert novel.Did Vera Foster commit suicide? That’s what everybody thinks. But Chief Inspector Kelsey has another theory.He insists Vera’s husband Gerald killed his wife, even though he was seventy miles away when she died.Following his intuition, and risking his reputation, Kelsey sets out to prove Gerald’s guilt and solve the most complicated puzzle of his career.

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First published in Great Britain in 1981 by Collins Crime

Copyright © Emma Page 1981

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For Christopher

with love

CONTENTS

Cover (#u1530746c-a2b2-5cbc-a338-49acc524c5c9)

Title Page (#u4d138ef0-edec-5235-9d21-b1975c9e1e76)

Copyright (#ulink_cb772e8a-742d-5b72-929d-79894c6d7bdb)

Dedication (#ulink_519be985-c0cd-5d03-b2ff-d19ec853669b)

Chapter 1 (#ulink_6d3e47f6-2866-5197-acad-09fc99cf09d1)

Chapter 2 (#ulink_239bd40b-1406-5bc8-8cfe-fce18a4561db)

Chapter 3 (#ulink_795bcab1-5b3e-568e-9c53-0ea0ad7b6ffc)

Chapter 4 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 5 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 6 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 7 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 8 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 9 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 10 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 11 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 12 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 13 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 14 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 15 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 16 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 17 (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

By Emma Page (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 1 (#ulink_5f2b9e1b-f10b-5ebc-9a58-0a1fe93f02bc)

Eight o’clock on a clear golden morning in late September. The village of Abberley had been awake and astir for an hour or more. On the road that led north out of the village to the town of Cannonbridge two miles away, a tall house named Lynwood stood up on a bank and looked west across the valley. It was a substantial dwelling of graceful proportions, dating back to the early years of Victoria’s reign, set on the edge of farmland with smooth lawns falling away from it on all sides.

In the large front bedroom on the first floor Vera Foster settled back into the nest of lacy pillows that Miss Jordan had just shaken up with professional efficiency.

Vera ate the last of her porridge, beautiful thick creamy porridge cooked all night in the kitchen Aga in the Scottish fashion. Her father – now dead – had been Scottish. That was how he liked his porridge cooked, that was how it continued to be cooked at Lynwood, nine years after his death.