Title:Twas the Bite Before Christmas
Author(s): Lee Charles Kelley
Publisher(s): Avon Books
Pages: 384
Year: 2005
Format: EPUB
Language: English
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Ellis and Fiona Bright weren’t true Camdenites, or even true Mainers, for that matter. They lived in New York City for the most part, though, as I’d already learned from Karl, they had homes in Florida and Switzerland as well. The mansion was supposed to be a summer home. But about five years ago they stopped living anywhere else and seemed to hunker down on their little cliff overlooking the sea and town. They rarely went out, just the occasional concert or movie, no parties or other events, and their serving staff began to dwindle until it was just the maid, a butler and his wife, a chauffeur, and a cook.
“What about the old man’s background?” I asked.
He told me that Ellis Bright’s parents died early, left him and his young bride an enormous fortune, but not much else was known about them. There was said to have been a child, born in the late 1940s or early ’50s who died as an infant under mysterious circumstances. “Though from what we know now about SIDS,” he said, “that may have been what caused the young girl’s sudden death, if the rumor is true.”
Ellis Bright’s salad days landed him squarely, and some might say luckily, between WWII and the Korean conflict, so he had no military record and no battle scars, not that there was much chance of him being drafted in either of those wars. There had been talk among some of the older townspeople of a youthful indiscretion of some kind that had taken place between the wars and that still tainted him in some distant way. As for Fiona, she had the air of British aristocracy, but no one could say for sure if she really as an aristocrat or even really British.