The detectives on the case decide to hold him for further questioning. Finally, he asserts that when the second oar fell in the water, the soldier went down after it, never to resurface. Next, he says he deposited his friend on a passing steamer. The man hops from one account of his companion’s disappearance to another, at first claiming he dropped his fellow soldier at a sandy shore, but none exist within miles. The following morning the boat is picked up by a patrol, but with only one soldier and one oar. Two Light Infantrymen stationed at the docks steal a boat and set out to sea. The next night, just east of Epsom, a different mystery unfurls on the shores of Dover. Rumors of a group of young assailants spread, but the mystery deepens when the coroner’s report claims the wounds are self-inflicted. Early the next morning she is found dead in the street, her throat cut, sending out gruesome echoes of Jack the Ripper’s escapades just three summers ago. On the evening of August 8th, a “perfectly sober” woman is seen walking home on a stone road in Epsom. Crime and mysteries abound in southern England. The man is nothing the work is everything. The information here is culled from newspapers, newsreels, periodicals, and other primary sources from the date of the text’s original publication. This blog series, Big Picture, Small Picture, provides a contextual collage for a chosen piece of literature.
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