“142 Wellington Place” by Tim Selvadurai is now available for purchase
“…You know how hard I’ve tried to give Don a good home. When I married him – well, you know how he was. Women had rather spoilt him. He was the sort of man as much sinned against as sinning. I thought that my love had changed him, and I was so happy. But to think that all this time it had only been a pretense – such an awful, hideous lie. It’s so humiliating. He has no regard for me at all; otherwise, how could he have been so callous as to write to this wretched foreign minx? Such an ordinary slip of a girl, at that.”
– an excerpt from book
Author Reputation Press is honored to publish “142 Wellington Place” by Tim Selvadurai. This masterpiece is praised by Joe Kilgore of the US Review of Books, who acknowledges that “along the way, readers are nudged, rather than dragged, into the bizarre events surrounding one man’s demise and the wake of misfortune it leaves behind. Before it’s all over, multiple suspects pile up, a courtroom drama ensues, and revelations come surprisingly to life.” The book is now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and the ARP website.
Tim Selvadurai was born in Ceylon (now called Sri Lanka). He was educated in his own country and in England. Selvadurai worked for twenty-five years at the United Nations with UNESCO, UNDP, and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) at its headquarters in Nairobi. He and his family then immigrated to Canada, where he now resides. This is his first novel.
The suspense in this engaging crime narrative is riveting and keeps building up until it reaches a most unexpected climax filled with excitement and pathos. Fourteen years after the end of World War II, former RAF fighter pilot Ben Benison gets a frantic phone call from Celia, the wife of his best friend, Don.
It seems Don has been unfaithful, and the proof stands in the hallway of the couple’s home: Ada Hamilton, a young, fragile, pregnant girl who clutches love letters written in Don’s hand. Unfortunately, Don is in London, and Celia wants Ben to find out if her husband truly is a liar and a cheat. Ben heads up to London to confront his old friend and then returns to Celia’s house to deliver the sad news that Don has admitted to the affair.
But then things take a strange and sudden turn. Two police inspectors arrive minutes later and reveal that Don’s body has been found in his rooming house at 142 Wellington Place. Whether his death was caused by suicide or murder, they can’t—or, more accurately, won’t—say. The authorities open up an inquest into Don’s death, and Ben accompanies the police back to London, where they interview witnesses and gather evidence. Tracking down Don’s mistress complicates things, and there is a great twist when a second “Miss Hamilton” turns up. Something is certainly rotten at 142 Wellington Place.
“142 Wellington Place” by Tim Selvadurai is now available for purchase via ARP Bookstore: https://authorreputationpress.com/products/142-wellington-place.