Category Archives: Ray Abinett

The Land Rover Discovery sped through the bleak Scottish landscape making its way towards Loch Lomand and the Trossachs. It had started snowing after crossing the Scottish border and passing through Gretna Green. Ben Lennox hoped he would reach his … Continue reading →

I knew there was something wrong with my husband Terry as soon as I came down to breakfast. He sat quietly eating his cornflakes, but the banana he usually sliced and added to them was still lying in front of … Continue reading →

‘The rumour old chap, is that you’re about to inherit a fortune. Avery nice windfall in fact, and comes just at the right time – a what.’ said Charlie. Charlie had a terrible and annoying habit of saying “a what?” … Continue reading →

Snow had started falling again, now covering everything in sight around Oakdean Place, a 17th century manor house. The morning was dark and overcast, and it had been snowing on and off for two days. A pathway on the driveway … Continue reading →

Ebenezer Scrooge never saw it coming. He was bankrupt, yes bankrupt. Something in his wildest dreams he would never have believed. After all he had Bob Cratchet didn’t he; didn’t he? That impoverished, slow-witted, individual who he paid to keep … Continue reading →

Austin Bevis was gradually starting to feel as if he hadn’t been away as he walked round his old manor in the East End of London. After all it was five years since he had been locked up in Wormwood … Continue reading →

The year was 1953 and Chambers Secondary Modern School was a Co-Ed school having a mixture of Boys and Girls between the age of 11 and 15. There were the usual brash types and Joe Lewis was one of them, … Continue reading →

The Tiger Moth Bi-Plane swept low over the snow covered landscape of Windrush Valley in the Cotswold’s, its fixed wheels almost touching the tops of the stone walls and hedgerows that surrounded the many fields. Bono Stewart, the pilot of … Continue reading →

Herbie Stuart stood on the edge of the runway watching the Cessna plane, his flight out of the remote African ocean island; disappear into the distance without him.  It had been the fulfilment of a lifetime’s dream to come to … Continue reading →