The Lives of Carruthers

Read the previous chapters: PART I PART II PART III INTERMISSION PART IV V. Lone Hands Sydney Horler’s novel In the Dark , published by Hodder & Stoughton in Britain in 1927, introduced a new hero. Bearing the improbable name of Buncombe ‘Bunny’ Chipstead, we are told he is forty-four years old, has a slight, wiry build, and is very wealthy – when in London he lives in a luxurious bachelor flat…