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The Butcher Began To Kill The Ox

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The Butcher Began To Kill The Ox, Ch 3

22nd April 2020 Roger Ackroyd 0

CHAPTER 3 The light rain that had begun when he got off the train at Bradford on Avon had now turned into a steady drizzle and to judge by the lowering clouds coming in from [more…]

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The Butcher Began To Kill The Ox, Ch 2

15th April 2020 Roger Ackroyd 0

CHAPTER 2 Now, here he was, sitting in an anonymous government office, waiting to be grilled by what he had always described as “faceless farts” of civil servants who wouldn’t do his job for all [more…]

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The Butcher Began To Kill The Ox, Ch 1

8th April 2020 Roger Ackroyd 0

For those new readers who have not yet availed themselves of my first novel, A Coin for the Hangman (available at Amazon as a print or ebook version), I am prefacing this first chapter of [more…]

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