The Architect of Blackwood Hall
The peach tree on the wall was the first thing Arthur Winthrop noticed. It was not growing from the earth but painted on the brickwork above the front door — a trompe l'oeil of ripening fruit, rendered in ochre and crimson by some forgotten hand. Arthur stood at the gate and looked up at it, then at the house behind it, then at the woman who had hired him. Lady Eleanor Blackwood was thirty-two,...
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