The Third Person at the Table
London, 1889. The dining room of Sir Alistair Thorpe was a monument to money laundered through taste—Persian rugs older than the British Empire, paintings by Dutch masters so dark they seemed to swallow light, silverware that had been in someone else's family for three centuries before being bought by Sir Alistair's father at an auction where the previous owners' debts were sold alongside their...
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