A Shot at Nothing
Philipa Lowe is looking for a new house.
But her friend Oliver does not approve, particularly of the one she most wants to see.
In spite of his reluctance, she goes ahead, and on first sight of it she is full of enthusiasm.
True, it is too big for her, true that she could barely afford it, but at once she falls in love with it.
Oliver’s reluctance is soon explained, as this was the house where a murder took place.
Six years before, Clare Steadman was committed to prison for the murder of her husband.
Yet Philipa is not discouraged She is intrigued. When she discovers that Oliver himself was intimately involved in the case, she is fascinated.
It is when Oliver declares that he believes Clare to have been innocent that Philipa interests herself in the evidence – but then the facts come to light, and her innocence seems undeniable.
For how could Clare, with the gun room doors locked against her, and the French window jammed by her own efforts with a shotgun, have reached her husband, in order to make use of the second barrel?
And at what was the third shot fired? At nothing?
Philipa is determined to find out…even if it means risking her own life.