The Case of the Flying Donkey: A Ludovic Travers Mystery

by Christopher Bush

  Gallois decided to have something of a holiday while awaiting the Wednesday’s meeting. Toulon had been wholly unsuccessful in its search for the supposed priest, and he took the autobus to Marseilles, and from there another that went to Toulon and along the coast. At Toulon, during a ten-minute halt, he squinted through the window at the place of the Wednesday’s meeting, and was gratified to see that Charles’s theory had had a considerable basis of fact.

  Early on the Monday the autobus that was taking him along the coast arrived at Carliens. Gallois had never been there before, and he found the place irresistibly attractive. Little over an hour in a fast car would bring him back to Toulon, as he told himself, and he made up his mind that he would go no farther. Till the Wednesday afternoon he would bask in the Carliens sun, and at the same time get together some ideas about Shakespeare and the French dramatists of the seventeenth century. From the Hôtel de France, where he booked a room, he once more rang the police at Toulon in case something should have happened since his departure from Nîmes. But nothing had happened. The Toulon authorities had made inquiries throughout the district and there was never a priest with a voice like that which Gallois had described.

  Published by Dean Street Press 2018

  Copyright © 1939 Christopher Bush

  Introduction copyright © 2018 Curtis Evans

  All Rights Reserved

  The right of Christopher Bush to be identified as the Author of the Work has been asserted by his estate in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

  First published in 1939 by Cassell & Co.

  Cover by DSP

  ISBN 978 1 912574 08 7

  www.deanstreetpress.co.uk