Dusty Death
“Percy Peach announced that firmly to his team. It was important for morale that they felt progress was being made. Whether consciously or unconsciously, it was all too easy for an old crime like this to be written off as insoluble.
There were multiple fractures in the bones of this female corpse, but they were probably all recent. In other words, the body had been considerably damaged by the heavy machinery brought in for the demolition of the houses. Had it not been for the crane-driver’s keen... eyesight and his glimpse of that gaunt forearm rearing itself so dramatically from the rubble, the body might never have been discovered, might have been anonymously interred for ever beneath the concrete foundations of the new office block which was to rise on the site.
The blood group was confirmed as the same as that of the patch discovered by the observant Jack Chadwick at the scene of the crime. That made it likely but not certain that the corpse had lain for years against that wood, which was confirmed as the lower part of what had originally been a substantial door, belonging either to a large cupboard or perhaps even to a room.MoreLess
There were multiple fractures in the bones of this female corpse, but they were probably all recent. In other words, the body had been considerably damaged by the heavy machinery brought in for the demolition of the houses. Had it not been for the crane-driver’s keen... eyesight and his glimpse of that gaunt forearm rearing itself so dramatically from the rubble, the body might never have been discovered, might have been anonymously interred for ever beneath the concrete foundations of the new office block which was to rise on the site.
The blood group was confirmed as the same as that of the patch discovered by the observant Jack Chadwick at the scene of the crime. That made it likely but not certain that the corpse had lain for years against that wood, which was confirmed as the lower part of what had originally been a substantial door, belonging either to a large cupboard or perhaps even to a room.MoreLess
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