title: Deadly Diversions
author: Graham Mcleod
description: Russ Graham is the pen name for Graham R. McLeod, a native of London, Ontario.After ten years in the RCAF, he joined Air Canada and spent the last eight years of his career flying 747s on the company's global routes. Graham and his wife Patricialive in Orangeville, Ontario and winter in Tucson, Arizona.
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  #  Lessons in Following a Poisonous Trail
  
  
  #  By Charlie Cochrane
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Lessons in Following a Poisonous Trail © Charlie Cochrane, 2020
  
  
  Cover art by Alex Beecroft
  
  
  These are works of fiction and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or
  establishments, events or locales is coincidental. All Rights Are Reserved. No
  part of this may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without
  written permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in
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  #  Cambridge
  
  
  
  
  
  October 1911
  
  
  
  
  
  Saturday
  
  
  
  
  
  A bright afternoon, with a gentle breeze. St Bride’s rugby pitch, the home
  team turning out against St Thomas’s college. A tight game, hard fought.
  Jonty, arms raised to charge down a drop kick from the opposition, stumbled
  over a churned-up piece of turf, found himself diving headlong towards a boot
  and took evasi