Peter Connor
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AND SOME BY VIRTUE FALL
Peter Connor
Ark House
Davy Cunningham is a likeable, honest and honourable young man who works as a furniture removalist. He lives a full and carefree life at home. Life is going well for him until the day that his boss, Reg Mortimer, orders him to participate in a secret job.
Davy and his offsider Alf Bartlett are duped and are subsequently framed by a group of professional thieves who steal designer furniture to order. Davy and Alf are arrested and charged with the crime. And Some By Virtue Fall is a story of intrigue and deception. It is a light and readable detective novel that highlights how a trusting person can fall foul of the law at the hands of heartless criminals.
At the end of the novel there are many unanswered questions that have been posed by the writer and which hang like loose ends. Just some of these are:
Just who did pay the barrister and the solicitor?
The robbers opened the door to the house of fine furniture with a key but where did they get the key?
How did the crooks circumvent the alarm system?
Another major irritant was the length of some sentences. In these days of SMS texts and Twitter where brevity is the essence of communication a sentence of 99 words loses the reader long before the full stop. DS