Highbinders (2012)
“I ordered something French and funny anyhow, the blanquette of veal, because I wanted to see if they did it better than I did and, of course, they did.
Earlier at the Hilton I had called Eddie Apex and made what arrangements I had to for the next day. Then I settled down with the Evening Standard and read all about the Marble Piano Tomb Murder in Highgate Cemetery. It was the Standard’s kind of story and it had even pushed an old standby, GUARD DOG SAVAGES CHILD, back to page seven or eight. I read the dog story, too, only to learn that the child was a sixteen-year-old girl who had been teasing the dog who had nipped her. Once.
The Standard didn’t have too many facts on the Highgate murder either, but it had gone with what it had. One William W. Batts, twenty-seven, of some place in Islington, had been found dead with his throat cut in Highgate Cemetery, tucked up underneath the open lid of a marble grand piano. A mysterious Bulgarian tourist was helping police with their inquiries.
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