Book 1 - English work

Book 1 Murder at Mortlock Hall - Donald Dallas

The book I have read is called Murder at Mortlock Hall. It’s a detective story about a murder at the hotel Mortlock Hall. The character of this story is a man called Trevor Marshall, he is the one who owes the hotel. 

Trevor Marshall planes to build a bigger hotel but that means that Mark French who lives in the grounds under the hotel with his father will have to leave his home. 

Mark tries to talk to Marshall but it doesn’t work, Marshall have already made up his mind. When Mark leaves Marshalls office he says that he is going to kill Marshall if he does this.

Some minutes later a women who lives on the hotel, Miss Ann Lang, comes to talk to Marshall to see if his alright. Then Marshall gets a phone call from a man called Archie Crow. He nervously leaves miss Lang in the office and he takes the call.

Archie Crow is a man who has just come out from prison, Mr Marshall and Archie worked together with an ”afear” and then Archie went to prison beacuse of it but Marshall took all the money and got away safe. 

Archie told Marshall that he wanted his money back or he would kill Marshall. And Marshall felt more frettend when he noticed that his own chauffeur Duncan Duff was working for Archie now. 

Marshall was very nervous when he got down to eat dinner, and the people on the hotel went very worried for him. Then Pierre Sachs who was Marshalls own brother-in-law, came and Sachs was very worried. He came and told Marshall that he needed money to help his wife Joan, Marshalls sister, who was very sick. Marshall refused, but Sachs took a hold on Marshalls arm and then Marshall hit Sachs in the face. Sachs whispered ”I’m going to kill Marshall for this” when Marshall was walking to his office. 

Now three man has told Marshall they are going to kill him and some minutes after that Marshall had walked away from Sachs, a shout was heard from Marshalls room and there was Marshall in his chair with a bullet in his chest, dead.