The Ground That Was Not Opened

di Deep88 (Autore)

Deep88, 2026

Monday the thirty-first of March, 1930. The guardians' last night, and a man dies in the mortuary yard at a quarter of ten while a clerk writes in a book that he walked out alive at nine forty. Six weeks later a labourer finds a second coffin in a drain trench at the back of the workhouse garden, on ground the county has already sold, in a burial yard that no licence will let anyone open, and the only book that could say what was buried there is in a van between three authorities that have all signed for it and none of which can find it. Nether Brompton has a parish council three years old, a bank account, a minute book and no lawyers. Letty Vaughan is forty-eight, on the register, and for the second time the parish has to hear her instead of counting her. A coroner opens an inquest and adjourns it to an assize that never sits. A county offers to dig, and then to sell what it has dug, and then to mumble about the law. A burial club of seventy-six members finds it owns a grave and cannot prove it. A fair-play mystery in which everything is in a document by Chapter Six, and the trick is not who wrote it but who was ever going to be allowed to read it. No body moves for the trial, no verdict comes, and the last line of the book is a question in a woman's own hand.

• Autore: Deep88
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Deep88
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798237282023