The Case of the Solicitor's Honest Lie

Two hundred pounds vanish from a Gray's Inn solicitor's trust account. The junior partner confesses without prompting. The client's papers say four men had access.

Section I

The Scene

Victorian newspaper-style illustration for The Case of the Solicitor's Honest Lie, set at Falkner & Mann, solicitors, Gray's Inn.

Hand-drawn case map for The Case of the Solicitor's Honest Lie, showing Falkner & Mann, solicitors, Gray's Inn. — The ground in question.

Setting: Falkner & Mann, solicitors, Gray's Inn
Time: Thursday afternoon, second week of May 1893
Weather: A warm spring day; the bookbinder's awnings out below
Atmosphere: A panelled solicitor's room over a bookbinder's; the smell of leather and ink; the high windows giving on the Inn's quiet square.

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