A Question of Trust

-Victor Canning

Horace, the Locksmith

Horace Danby was an unmarried, fifty-something locksmith. He was usually healthy except for the occasional hay fever in summer. His business was good and he had two helpers. Everyone thought him a good and respectable man. But he wasn’t really honest. He had spent some time in a prison library 15 years ago. He liked rare, expensive books and robbed a safe…