Justice Hall - Laurie R. King [174]
There was, The Times reported, no suspicion of foul play.
Justice Stream continued on, ever-flowing.
And in England, no more was seen of Mahmoud Hazr and his cousin Ali.
EDITOR’S AFTERWORD
On June 21, 2001, the Shot at Dawn memorial was unveiled at the Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire, England. It depicts a seventeen-year-old private who was condemned to death, without defence, in the summer of 1915. Behind the blindfolded figure stands a forest of 306 wooden stakes, each representing an executed Commonwealth soldier.
The death penalty for desertion and cowardice was abolished in 1930. In 1997 a review of the cases of the 306 Great War condemned men was begun. In 1998 it was suggested that the names of the executed soldiers might now be added to the country’s war memorials. On Remembrance Day 2000, relatives and supporters of the executed soldiers joined the march and the two minutes’ silence at the Cenotaph in Whitehall. However, the Secretary of State for Defence later stated that there would be no posthumous pardons for the men and boys who were shot at dawn.
Laurie R. King
Freedom, California
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
With her debut, A Grave Talent, Laurie R. King became the first novelist since Patricia Cornwell to win prizes for Best First Crime Novel on both sides of the Atlantic. She is the author of four contemporary novels featuring Kate Martinelli, five previous Mary Russell mysteries, and the bestselling novels A Darker Place and Folly. She lives in northern California, where she is at work on her next novel.
Other Mystery Novels by
LAURIE R. KING
Mary Russell Novels
THE BEEKEEPER’S APPRENTICE
A MONSTROUS REGIMENT OF WOMEN
A LETTER OF MARY
THE MOOR
O JERUSALEM
Kate Martinelli Novels
A GRAVE TALENT
TO PLAY THE FOOL
WITH CHILD
NIGHT WORK
And
A DARKER PLACE
FOLLY
JUSTICE HALL
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King, Laurie R.
Justice Hall : a Mary Russell novel /
by Laurie R. King.
p. cm.
eISBN 0-553-89729-2
1. Russell, Mary (Fictitious character)—Fiction.
2. Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 3. Women detectives—England—Fiction.
4. Married women—Fiction. 5. Country homes—
Fiction. 6. England—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3561.I4813 J8 2002
813'.54—dc21
2001037945
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Title:Justice Hall
Creator:Laurie R. King
Publisher:Bantam Books
Format:OEB
Date:2002-12-20
Subject:Mystery
Identifier:King_0553897292
Language:US English
Rights:Copyright 2002