As he left the house in the Royal Crescent on which he’d taken a lease two year’s ago, he decided to walk rather than get the horses from the mews. The storm that woke him in the early hours of the morning had now passed and it was a bright, clear day. At the gate he touched the railings and crossed himself, as was his custom following the story he’d been told when taking the house. Seemingly, ten years previously a workman named Leggatt had been engaged in making the words “Royal Crescent” at the top of the centre houses (numbers 7 and 8). When he had finished the letter “S”, he’d stepped back to admire his handy work and, overbalancing, fell onto the railings below – fatally. From Chapter 1 of The Jane Austen Murders.
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