Moonlight Gardener
- Автор: Фиш Роберт Ллойд
- Год: 1971
- Язык: английский
- Год: Popular Publications
- Жанр: Криминальные детективы
Электронная книга - «Moonlight Gardener». Краткое содержание книги:
Nobody could blame Charley Crompton for wanting to kill his wife. For years she’s made his life hell, but poor old Charley has always been too meek to stand up for himself. One night they have a terrible fight, loud enough for Mrs. Williams next door to hear every word, and the argument is followed by eerie silence. The next thing Mrs. Williams knows, Charley is digging up the peach tree in his backyard and burying it again. When Mrs. Crompton doesn’t reappear, Mrs. Williams has only one thought on her mind: Mrs. Crompton has been murdered.
When the local sheriff knocks on the Cromptons’ door, Charley answers holding a bloody ax. As the circumstantial evidence piles up, the police are forced to decide: Is Charley Crompton a cold-blooded killer? Or has he simply lost his mind?
“...and leaving the lamp on in the house while you were coming to pick me up all the way to Joliet electricity costs money but you don’t care — why should you, you don’t pay the bills, and leaving that ugly hatchet on the kitchen counter, I’ve told you a thousand times the place for your dirty tools is in the cellar — well, at least I see you had the decency to set out two cups of coffee, I only hope you didn’t use the electric percolator and leave it on while you were out, electricity isn’t free, but you wouldn’t think of that, and—”
A sudden pause, and then — “Charles! These cups are dirty — they’ve been used. If you’ve been entertaining people in this house while I’ve been away, that Mrs. Williams from across the street, don’t think I’m blind, I see the way you two look at each other. Charles, wait, wait! Charles, who’s that in the shadow there? Charles, do you hear me? Charles...”
“Hello, dear,” said Mrs. Williams quietly, and reached for the kitchen counter and the hatchet there. “Welcome home.”