Shadows & Lies
“Here in the capital, the added fumes of London’s million smoking, belching chimneys brewed it up into a real pea-souper; gaslights became yellow glimmers in the gloom, making the roads and streets death-traps for the unwary, and into every building a noxious yellow reek filtered, laying a film of grime over everything. Yet the fog seemed no denser to Detective Chief Inspector Crockett than the doubts, uncertainties and silences still surrounding the case of the dead woman found two months ago at Belmonde.
It was unheard of for Crockett to feel at a loss, yet today, free for the moment after being under constant pressure for the last few weeks, at liberty for once to reflect on the Belmonde case and the short time he’d spent working there, he felt distinctly unsettled. Though the murder was still officially the business of the police in Shropshire, he couldn’t escape the mortified feeling, always at the back of his mind, that he, the man from the Yard, had failed to provide the experie...nced help they’d needed, and that the mystery had never been as fully investigated as it should have been.MoreLess
It was unheard of for Crockett to feel at a loss, yet today, free for the moment after being under constant pressure for the last few weeks, at liberty for once to reflect on the Belmonde case and the short time he’d spent working there, he felt distinctly unsettled. Though the murder was still officially the business of the police in Shropshire, he couldn’t escape the mortified feeling, always at the back of his mind, that he, the man from the Yard, had failed to provide the experie...nced help they’d needed, and that the mystery had never been as fully investigated as it should have been.MoreLess
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