Cockrill

By: K. Jayne Cockrill on November 10, 2008 at 5: 43 pm

Word Count « I Had the Write Idea 2008

Baghdad, Iraq and Mosul, 1914-19 Pt. 2 (Cockrill series booklet) by Philip Cockrill

Buried in the back yard: Dig anywhere in Iraq & find wall-to-wall weapons caches? 2008

Inspector Cockrill let them go out before him, standing aside bowing civilly to the ladies, the white panama hat in his hand.

Tour de Force Brand, Christianna, 1907- 1955

Inspector Cockrill had scarcely time to note the shape of the splashes on the table, before a uniformed arm, sweeping casually across them, smeared them half out of existence …

Tour de Force Brand, Christianna, 1907- 1955

Cockrill and Leo had in vain banged down exasperated fists until the hospitable glasses jumped on his great, dirty office table; in vain had argued, reasoned, threatened, implored.

Tour de Force Brand, Christianna, 1907- 1955

Inspector Cockrill swam by no means under water himself, but with a style retained from his boyhood gambollings along the coast of Kent — reared up half out of the sea, practically horizontal, and hitting out wildly with his hands at the surface of the water, like a dog.

Tour de Force Brand, Christianna, 1907- 1955

Inspector Cockrill looked out and down and saw nothing but a very small patch of grass which they were certainly going to miss and a very large building composed entirely of glass which they were quite certainly going to hit.

Tour de Force Brand, Christianna, 1907- 1955

Inspector Cockrill sat up on his narrow hams, feet flat on the sand, knees raised, hands dangling between them holding the inevitable untidily smoking cigarette.

Tour de Force Brand, Christianna, 1907- 1955

Inspector Cockrill gritted his dentures, and went doggedly on.

Tour de Force Brand, Christianna, 1907- 1955

‘Until he found out,’ said Cockrill steadily, ‘that you were not rich after all.’

Tour de Force Brand, Christianna, 1907- 1955