The Distant Joke

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The Distant Joke

Chapter One "You are asking for the impossible, Mrs. Wemyss, and I am merely the clerk of a machine that does not bend." Halloway’s voice was flat, a stone dropped into a deep well, and Una Wemyss sat in the leather chair opposite him, her hand resting on the armrest, feeling the cold damp of the November air seep through the wool of her coat. The office of the Bank of Scotland in Inverness was...

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