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Told by a friend of the painter Philip Esdaile, it begins with a disturbing discovery in Esdaile's studio and follows the narrator's amateur investigation through London studios, offices and a country house.
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The opening
Chapter 1
The tale I am setting out to tell has to do with the killing, on a May morning of the year 1919, of one young man by another who claimed, and still claims, to have been his friend. The circumstances were singular—perhaps even unique; the consequences affected a number of people in various interesting ways and byways; and since the manner of telling the story has been left entirely to me, I will begin with the breakfast-party that Philip Esdaile gave that morning at his studio in Lennox Street, Chelsea.
About the author
Oliver Onions
1873 Bradford – 1961 Aberystwyth · English writer
George Oliver Onions, who published under the name Oliver Onions, was an English writer of short stories and novels. He wrote in various genres, but is perhaps best remembered for his ghost stories, notably the collection Widdershins and the widely anthologized novella "The Beckoning Fair One".
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