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The House by the River
A. P. Herbert
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Then he opened the front door, very grudgingly, and looked round the corner.
"Hullo!" said Egerton.
"Hullo!" said Stephen. "Come in," and then, with a sudden urgency—"quick!"
John Egerton came slowly in and stood still in the dark.
"What's the matter?" he asked.
Stephen said, "I'm in a hole," and turned on the light.
It was very badly managed. No doubt he should have hidden Emily away before he opened the door; should have led up gradually to the ultimate revelation; should have carefully prepared a man like Egerton for a sight like the body of Emily Gaunt. For it was a coarse and terrible sight. She lay on her back by the hat-stand, with her dark hair tumbled on the floor, her face mottled and blue, her eyes gaping disgustingly, her throat marked and inflamed with the fingers of her employer. The coat of Cook was crumpled beneath her, and she had tor. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
This is two books: a chilling dissection of selfishness and misguided loyalty, and a love poem to the river Thames. I really enjoyed both elements.
Stephen Byrne a poet and respected gentleman lives by the Thames upstream happily married. Men like him, women adore him, what could go wrong?
Well as the river ebbs and flows so do his fortunes when drunk late after a dinner party and in a moment of unrequited passion with a house maid ,he commits t