Mr. Dixon Disappears
A Mobile Library Mystery
Chapter One
He was sick of the excuses and the lies. He was tired of the evasions and the untruths, of people refusing to stand up and speak the truth and take responsibility for their own actions. It seemed to him like yet another symptom of the decline of Western civilisation; of chaos; and climate change; and environmental disaster; and war; disease; famine; oppression; the eternal slow slide down and down and down. It was entropy, nemesis, apotheosis, imminent apocalypse and sheer bad manners all rolled into one.
People were not returning their library books on time.
'I'm sorry, I forgot,' people would say.
And, 'I've been in hospital.'
Or, 'I liked it so much I lent it to my sister.' (Or my brother, or my mother, or ... read full excerpt from Mr. Dixon Disappears ebook
