Death of An Outsider (2011)
“– S. Calverley Hamish awoke the next morning in his own bed with Towser beside him. ‘Anything would be better than you,’ he said morosely, pushing the dog out of the bed. Towser usually lay across his master’s feet like a rug during the night, but had been recently banished from the bedroom.
Hamish could have stayed the night with Jenny if he had wanted, but he had made the excuse that he would have to sit up late, typing out a report for Blair. Although this was true, he also did not want to get further involved until he decided whether his intentions were honourable or not.
The weather forecast for the north of Scotland had been dreadful, but as if to prove the forecasters wrong, the sun blazed down outside.
An hour later Hamish was about to descend on Blair with his report when the minister, Mr Struthers, called.
At first Hamish was puzzled. Why should a minister call on a policeman at breakfast time to discuss the problem of AIDS?
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