Passing Strange

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Original title

Passing Strange

Original publication date

1981-02

People/Characters

Norman Burton (schoolmaster, honorary secretary of the Horticultural Society); Joyce Mary Cooper (nurse); William Edward Crosby (Detective Constable); Hector Smithson Dabbe (Doctor); Maurice Esdaile; Harry Harpe (Detective Inspector, Happy Harry) (show all 22); Edward Hebbinge; Thomas Jervis (Reverend); Herbert Kershaw; Millicent Kershaw; Superintendent Leeyes; Richenda Hilary Pemberton Mellows; Cedric Milsom; Eileen Milsom; Fred Pearson; Peter Pearson; Ruby Pearson; Christopher Dennis Sloan (Detective Inspector, C. D., Seedy); Mark Smithson; Stephen Terlingham; Sam Watkinson; Ken Wells

Important places

Calleshire, England, UK; Almstone, Calleshire, England, UK; Berebury, Calleshire, England, UK

Epigraph

My story being done,
She gave me for my pains a world of sighs:
She swore, in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange;
'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful:
She wish'd she had not heard it...
Othello, T... (show all)he Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare,
Act I, Scene 3.

Dedication

For a lifetime of friends
in the
Guide Movement

First words

"Judges don't make mistakes," said Fred Pearson.

Quotations

All the malefactors that Sloan had ever known had shared a delusion that a postponed Day of Judgement was a Day of Judgement that might somehow be persuaded to go away.

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Though,' observed Sloan profoundly, 'where there's a will there's usually a relative.'

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Although the last enemy might be death, in long and sad police experience, the first enemy could usually be found, Cain and Abel fashion, within the family circle.

Last words

(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"A water 'otter," he said hollowly.