Series Richard Pryor Mysteries

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Begins June 1955.   Pathologist Richard Pryor and forensic scientist Angela Bray, after meeting at the International Forensic Science Conference in Edinburgh, have pooled their resources to open a private firm offering various forensic services, including paternity tests, autopsies, etc.   Pryor has also taken a job as a part-time lecturer.   They have agreed to give the business two years before deciding if they can make a go of it.   They have moved into the comodious Garth House that Richard inherited from his aunt Gladys, putting laboratories and offices on the first floor and living (separately) on the second floor.   The house is in the Wye Valley, which overlaps England and Wales. They have inherited Aunt Gladys's gardner/odd-jobs man Jimmy Jenkins whether they want him or not, but he proves to be a willing worker.   They have hired lab-technician Sian Lloyd and secretary-housekeeper Moira Davison.   There is an underground sexual frisson between Pryor and the three women, but no overt romance.    Lawyer Edward Lethbridge hires them for one of their first cases, and introduces them to private eye Trevor Mitchell, with whom they form a happy working relationship.   Pryor went to school in Cardiff with Brian Meredith, now a general practitioner and coroner in Monmouth, and he has been an invaluable contact for them in securing jobs for their new firm. (English, Unclassified)