When It Was Dark, Paperback/Guy Thorne
Descriere
Mr. Hinchcliffe, the sexton, looked up as Mr. Philemon, the clerk, unlocked the great gates of open ironwork which led into the street. Hinchcliffe was cutting the lettering on a tombstone, supported by heavy wooden trestles, under a little shed close to the vestry door of the church. The clerk, a small, rotund man, clerical in aspect, and wearing a round felt hat, pulled out a large, old-fashioned watch. "Time for the bell, William," he said. The parish church was a large building in sham perpendicular. It stood in a very central position on the Manchester main road, rising amid a bare triangle of flat gravestones, and separated from the street pavement only by high iron railings. It was about half-past four on a dull autumn afternoon. The trams swung ringing down the black, muddy road, and the long procession of great two-wheeled carts, painted vermilion, carried coal from the collieries six miles away to the great mills and factories of Salford.
Despre autor
Guy Thorne a fost pseudonimul lui Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull, un prolific jurnalist și romancier englez, cel mai cunoscut pentru romanul său When It Was Dark: The Story of A Great Conspiracy (1903). El a scris și sub numele de C. Ranger Gull și Leonard Cresswell Ingleby.
