6/12/2023 0 Comments Tom mead death and the conjurorBut who am I to stand in the way of a reader’s fun?” These days such practices are antiquated and rather pass é. “Once upon a time, this would be the point in the narrative where a challenge is issued to the reader. And the best person to explain the impossible is a magician. The murderer seems to be utterly impossible. And suicide is out of the question, as there is no trace of a weapon. And the fact that both the door and window to the study, the only entrances, were both locked from the inside. Except that Rees’ housekeeper, someone with a habit of listening at doors, heard her employer in the study making a telephone call after the stranger left. With no one entering the house after the departure of the mysterious visitor, it would seem obvious that he was the murderer. And soon thereafter, Rees is found in his study with his throat cut. After meeting with Rees, the visitor departs. After telling his housekeeper to expect a visitor, a mysterious figure arrives, with his hat and scarf obscuring his face. 1930s London, and famed psychiatrist Dr Anselm Rees is alone in his study.
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