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Staghurst Noir by Chatwick Harpax

Just Desserts A Prologue… of sorts: Dickenson, Poe, Doyle and a bevy of other Victorian era Authors like to play on the stigma that the wealthy are often times arrogant, rude and for the most part, out of touch with the realities faced by most of us. Thus the wealthy were often portrayed in their tales with a quite stunningly bad light as their capers were recorded. It has been mostly said they did this because their readers,( mostly poorer , common laborers) liked to hear of the wealthy’s misfortunes because it made them feel better about their own standing in life. But, truth be told, most of the Victorian era tragedies of the wealthy were not entirely fiction. Because the antics of the very wealthy of those long ago periods could be both at times, incredibly rude, and often quite unbelievable, with more than enough fodder for untold series of tales. The following tale, set sometime in the early to mid 1900’s, is not quite Victorian. Nor does it reflect