Mrs Christina Wallace was not pleased to see the police on her doorstep again. Even less so when advised that the visit was in connection with the missing earrings. ‘This is really most inconvenient, can’t you come back later?’
‘No madam, I’m afraid not, this is a very serious matter.’
The Wallace house on Stonecroft was a substantial double fronted early Victorian house with steep pitched slate roofs, tall chimneys and a side wing of what had once been stables but since converted into garages and set in substantial grounds.
The house, once the home of Sir Eversleigh Bartlett MP and a substantial local landowner, was built from the local millstone, a rich honey coloured stone, now sadly discoloured, as were all buildings in Garside from decades of coal dust and soot from the reeking chi
