A Better Quality of Murder: (Inspector Ben Ross 3)
“The pub stood on the corner at a junction where two roads formed a right angle. Thus it had two entrances in different streets: an entrance into the public bar from one and that to the saloon bar in the one round the corner. A very convenient arrangement, I thought. If a drinker were to learn someone he didn’t want to meet had just come in one door, he could easily make his escape through the other. It was likely Mr Sparrow wouldn’t want to meet me, so I had to choose the right door.
The men ...who lived off the earnings of the girls on the streets generally fancied themselves as flash coves. They wouldn’t want to mix with draymen and labourers. I made for the saloon bar entrance.
A question to the barman identified Jed Sparrow. From the little I knew of him I had imagined a burly brawler of a thug. But no, he matched his surname, a little shrimp of a man in a bowler hat and suit of houndstooth check. I saw that he had only one eye. Where the other should be was only a sunken cavity indicating that eyeball was missing altogether.MoreLess
The men ...who lived off the earnings of the girls on the streets generally fancied themselves as flash coves. They wouldn’t want to mix with draymen and labourers. I made for the saloon bar entrance.
A question to the barman identified Jed Sparrow. From the little I knew of him I had imagined a burly brawler of a thug. But no, he matched his surname, a little shrimp of a man in a bowler hat and suit of houndstooth check. I saw that he had only one eye. Where the other should be was only a sunken cavity indicating that eyeball was missing altogether.MoreLess
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