Ha'penny (Small Change)
Jo Walton
Language: English
Pages: 320
ISBN: 0765323141
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Before Jo Walton won the Hugo and Nebula Awards for her stunning Among Others, she published a trilogy set in a dark alternate postwar England that had negotiated "Peace with Honor" with Nazi Germany in 1941. These novels-Farthing, Ha'penny, and Half a Crown-are connected by common threads, but can be read in any order.
In Ha'penny, England has completed its slide into fascist dictatorship. The last hopes of democracy seem extinguished. Then a bomb explodes in a London suburb.
The brilliant but compromised Inspector Carmichael of Scotland Yard is assigned the case. What he finds leads him to a conspiracy of peers and communists-of staunch King-and-Country patriots and hardened IRA gunmen-to murder the Prime Minister and his ally, Adolf Hitler.
Against a background of domestic espionage and suppression, a band of idealists blackmails an actress who holds the key to the Fuhrer's death. From the ha'penny seats in the theatre to the ha'pennys that cover dead men's eyes, the conspiracy and the investigation swirl inexorably to a stunning conclusion.
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Unrecognizable.” “And you jumped to the conclusion that it was me? Why didn’t you telephone my office, where I’d have been delighted to speak to you, instead of driving all the way out here and distressing my wife?” That was a very good question, and one for which Carmichael had no good answer. “The Hampstead police had your home address, but not your work telephone number,” Carmichael said. “I’m very sorry for the inconvenience.” Kinnerson raised an eyebrow, and Carmichael squirmed. “They.
Down,” Carmichael said. “It was badly damaged in the blast. And an insurance company will want to know exactly what happened before they agree on compensation.” “No doubt,” Kinnerson said. “In any case, it is mine. Beyond that she only had some trinkets. She was never wealthy.” “Your mother’s friends?” Carmichael prompted. “I don’t know them. We didn’t share social circles at all. She called on me on precisely the occasions when she didn’t want her friends involved. She knew everyone in the.
Explosives?” “Nothing at all.” Tambourne seemed to understand the question after he’d answered it. “You think he had something to do with the bomb that blew him up? Because he wouldn’t know anything about that, and even more he wouldn’t do anything like that. He was all straight down the line King and Country stuff, true blue.” “There’s nothing you can think of that would make him resort to building a bomb?” Carmichael asked gently. “Nothing in the world. He wasn’t a Jew or a terrorist!.
Strong Irish accent. Carmichael shook his hand too. “Did you know Lauria Gilmore?” he asked him, to be sure. “I never had the pleasure, Inspector,” he said. “I acted with her in The Importance of Being Earnest, but I didn’t know her well,” Viola said. There was no trace now of the nervousness or fear or whatever it had been. He almost wondered if he had imagined it. “I saw that production,” Carmichael said. “Just after the war, wasn’t it? And you were Cecily?” “That’s right,” she said. “I.
Was just a horror story. It was the stuff of nightmare, being given soap and going into a shower but the soap is a stone and the showerheads vent poison gas. “Yes, the stone soap and the melting down of the gold teeth. I didn’t believe it myself until your brother-in-law was kind enough to give me a tour. I had to grit my teeth and apologize to Winston and Scotty when I came back.” “Not even the Jews deserve that,” I said. “No,” he agreed. “And they’re not all Jews, from what I was told.