The Pebblewick Chronicles - Chapter 9 - Thursday
Thursday A Solicitor Calls Everyone has heard of An Inspector Calls . In Pebblewick, however, we found ourselves facing a rather different form of visitation. A solicitor called. On Tuesday, someone had contacted the London firm of Atkinson and Carmichael and enquired whether an appointment might be arranged with Mr Simon Atkinson. I had a fair idea who had initiated that particular chain of events. Mrs Watkins had left The Salty Page on Tuesday afternoon with firm instructions that everything she knew should be passed directly to Constable Moss. Exactly how those instructions had eventually led to a prominent London solicitor being drawn into village affairs was a trail I had little desire to follow too closely. Some mysteries are best left unexplored. Life in Pebblewick had taught me that it was often safer to accept that something had happened and devote one’s attention to whatever consequences arrived afterwards. Mr Atkinson, it seemed, had been remarkably accom...