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My career in law began some years before the event of which I am about to relate. I gained my degree at Keble College, Oxford in the early nineteen-thirties and began my practice as a junior barrister in the prestigious Linklater Chambers situated behind the Temple Church in Fleet Street.Early on in my career, I had the good fortune to be involved in some rather high-profile criminal cases. These cemented my reputation and led to my appointment as...
It was after his second heart attack that Crawford Buchanan left the comfort of his luxurious townhouse, in one of the more fashionable Washington suburbs, to convalesce with his nieces in Johnston County, North Carolina.Felicity and Sarah Houseman were only too pleased to welcome him to Thorncroft, the dilapidated, rambling plantation that was their home.Buchanan, however, loathe...
When the American conglomerate, The Brady Group, announced it’s Hostile Takeover of the British retail company Wainwright & Co, eyes naturally turned to the FTSE 100 Index and The Dow Jones Average in an effort to make sense of it.Hostile takeovers are exceptionally rare. This one had been particularly brutal, as had been noted by The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times, both of which had much to say on the matter. Sir Michael Wainwright sat in his oak-panelled boardroom surrounded...
Rabbi Pesach Lieberman reverently laid the matzo on the makeshift bench. Passover had always been the holiday closest to his heart. Possibly it was because his given name Pesach meant “Passover” in Hebrew or maybe it was because he had never forgotten the old days when he and his brothers, sisters and parents used to cluster around a glittering festival laden table, old and young converging together to celebrate a three thousand year old miracle.Today’s celebration, however, was goi...
Do you see this book that I’m holding? It’s Oliver Twist. Umpteenth edition and heavily foxed throughout. See those brown spots? That’s what we in the trade call foxing. I won’t bore you with the chemical process which causes it. Suffice to say, a collector wouldn’t touch it. Totally worthless!I’d originally only popped over to view a set of Thackeray bound in fine Moroccan, but, before I can sally forth from the old two up, two down, the memsahib starts harping on about a chest of drawers for the spare room and orders m...
London. 1497 A.D.Last night, the Cardinal summoned me. His servants were hammering on my door at nigh on ten of the clock. My steward Bartholomew answered it, enquiring if they knew what time it was. They replied that the Cardinal’s business was a twenty-four hour one.
Dave Jackson hates Mondays.
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