title: An Old Fashioned Murder
author:  Laurie Pooler-Pelayo 
description: Laurie Pooler Pelayo started writing kid mysteries as a child, and tracing her family tree (genealogy) in high school, both of which she continued with into adulthood, eventually combining the two loves into one writing genealogical mysteries. She is employed as a Cataloging Library Technician in Southern California, where she recently earned her degree in history. In her spare time, she is co-librarian for South Bay Cities Genealogical Society in Torrance, California. Laurie has spoken about, written articles on and taught classes on genealogical practices. She is married and the mother of three children, all of whom help inspire her writing.
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  ## A QUESTION OF GUILT
  
  
    
  
  
  ### Richard Gordon
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Richard Gordon
  
  
  
  
  
  ## A QUESTION OF GUILT
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## THE CURIOUS CASE OF DR CRIPPEN
  
  
  
  
  
  ## First Published in 1981
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  It is Sunday afternoon, preferably before the war. The wife is already asleep
  in the armchair, and the children have been sent out for a nice long walk. You
  put your feet up on the sofa, settle your spectacles on your nose, and open
  the _News of the World._ Roast beef and Yorkshire, or roast pork and apple
  sauce, followed up by suet pudding and driven home, as it were, by a cup of
  mahogany-brown tea, have put you in just the right mood. Your pipe is drawing
  sweetly, the sofa cushions are soft underneath you, the fire is well alight,
  the air is warm and stagnant. In these blissful circumstances, what is it that
  you want to read about? Naturally, about a murder.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _George Orwell_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  'Cor blimey! You ought to see the landlady-what a face-Crippen was