Mary Fitt The Night-Watchman's Friend Paperback Book

I shouldnt have come back! Theyll never give up! Theres too much to lose! George Pollicott and Henry Rowles live a solitary and meagre existence in a hut along the towering Sea Wall of the Welsh Lowlands. On a foggy night twenty years before, nightwatchman Pollicott had found Rowles near death and nursed him back to health. Henry Rowles, an obviously educated man, shuns outside contact and relies on the devoted Pollicott for all his needs. Recently worried for his life, Rowles writes a will leaving everything to his friend, but is found murdered that very night. The police immediately set upon the nightwatchman as the culprit, but the clues are confounding. Why was their hut ransacked?Who are the unrecognized signatories at the bottom of the will?What motivation would Pollicott have for murdering someone he clearly revered?And why did Henry Rowles refer to his real name as John Henry Vincent Peter Dallingsworth Clairvaux, a man dead for forty years? Mary Fitt was the pseudonym of Kathleen Freeman (18971959), a classical scholar who taughtGreek at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire in Cardiff. Beginning in 1937, Freeman wrote twentynine mysteries and a number of short stories, mostly as Mary Fitt, and was elected to the Detection Club in 1950. Aside from her detective novels, Freeman published many books on classical Greece, scholarly articles and childrens stories. She lived in St Mellons in Wales with her partner Dr Liliane Marie Catherine Clopet, a... | Mary Fitt The Night-Watchman's Friend Paperback Book