Captured by their Past

By Miguel Arrufat Millan

The book, Captured by Their Past, is a book of fiction. It is about the mysterious murder of John Brown, a 60 years old writer who lives in London. The main character of the book is Mike Smith, who is a friend of John Brown. Mike decides to visit his friend one Saturday and, while they are having dinner with John’s children, John and Brown, John dies when he drinks a cup of whisky where there is arsenic. His son John is accused of having killed his father and he is arrested, but Mike, who is a lawyer, is not going to permit that he goes to prison, so he is going to defend John during the trial, discover the truth and send the real criminal or criminals to prison.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Sep 1, 2023
• ISBN: 9781698714912

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CAPTURED

BY THEIR

PAST

Miguel Arrufat Millan

© Copyright 2023 Miguel Arrufat Millan.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.

ISBN: 978-1-6987-1490-5 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-6987-1491-2 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2023912683

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The Characters of this play are:

John Brown: A writer. Sixty years old

John Brown Jr: His son

Charles Brown: His other son.

Linda Donaldson: John Brown’s Jr wife

Edward Mc Donald: The Butler.

Harry Whitehall: The editor.

Miss Jefferson: Harry Whitehall’s secretary.

Frank Robertson: The doctor.

Jason Parker: John Brown’s neighbour.

Reginald Johnson: The policeman.

Mary Robertson: John Brown’s maid.

George Edwards: The prosecutor.

Michael Smith: A friend of Mr. Brown and the main character of the play.

CONTENTS

Chapter 1 A Murder

Chapter 2 John Brown

Chapter 3 Charles Brown

Chapter 4 Linda Donaldson

Chapter 5 Edward The Butler

Chapter 6 Mary Robertson

Chapter 7 Jason Parker

Chapter 8 Harry Whitehall

Chapter 9 The Trial

Chapter 10 All The Truth

Chapter 1

A MURDER

My name is Michael Smith. I am sixty years old and I am married. I live in Manchester. My wife is called Mary. I am a lawyer and she is my secretary. We have two children, Mike and Philip. Mike is thirty-eight and Philip is thirty-five. Both are married. Mike is a dentist and Philip is an engineer. Both have a daughter and a son.

Everything happened one year ago. I was in London for business and I decided to visit an old friend whom I had not seen for a long time.

He was called John Brown and we had met at school and continued studying together until I met my wife and moved to Manchester. In spite of the distance, we had met quite often, the last time was at his wife’s funeral, two years before.

He was not very tall, he was sixty years old, brown- eyed, not very fat and a dark-haired man. He had two sons, John and Charles, who lived in Liverpool.

He was a writer and he had had a lot of success in his career. He had always written mystery novels.

The main character in his books was a middle-aged detective, whose name was James Parker. His most successful novel was The Pearl’s mystery. He liked reading mystery novels, especially from Agatha Christie. He had all her books and had read them many times. The book he liked most was The murder of Roger Ackroyd. He was retired now, and could live without writing, but he liked it very much, so he had started another novel. He had written more than eighty during all his life. He lived in a big house with a garden at the front and another one at the back. When I got there, his maid opened