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Peter G Thompson
She didn't fall by accident.
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A death in Belgravia, ruled a tragic accident. An oil man who reads a room the way he reads a drilling report. And one detail on a windowsill that will not sit still. Clean Hands is the case that began The Reginald Hargrove Mysteries, and it's yours, free.
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A young woman is found below the window of a grand Belgravia house. The inquest is brief, the verdict gentle: a fall, a tragedy, nothing more. The hands are clean. The story is tidy.
Reginald Hargrove is not a detective. He runs an oil company, and he has spent his working life reading the small wrong detail that the confident report glosses over, the figure that does not add up, the ground that says one thing while the map says another. Asked, almost in passing, to look again, he finds the room will not stay tidy, and that the cleanest hands can be the most telling of all.
Clean Hands is a self-contained mystery and the doorway into the series: the first time Reginald turns his attention from the ledger to the living. Read it on its own, or let it lead you into The Crimson Scarf and the novels that follow.
London, 1929. Before the war. Before the murders. Before anyone thought to ask Reginald Hargrove for help.
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