The Depths of Solitude
“In fact he’d kept his word and got away from the office at six o’clock. He just hadn’t got any further than the public bar of The Belted Galloway.
In any town there are two kinds of pubs: those where the local villains hang out and those where the police drink. It’s embarrassing to have to share. The Rose in Rye Lane was the preferred watering hole for Dimmock’s criminal classes, and The Belted Galloway on Edgehill Road was where officers from the police station round the corner congregated. It was run by a farmer who’d sold his land for housing; hence the name. It used to be simply The Bull.
As soon as he’d seen Brodie settled in his house and despatched Vickers to join her, Deacon began putting together a task force. He half-expected having to fight Superintendent Fuller over this, to justify using police resources on what might have seemed like personal business, but the station’s senior officer saw nothing personal about it. If a woman was being terrorised, her relationship with h...is head of CID was no reason to deny her help.MoreLess
In any town there are two kinds of pubs: those where the local villains hang out and those where the police drink. It’s embarrassing to have to share. The Rose in Rye Lane was the preferred watering hole for Dimmock’s criminal classes, and The Belted Galloway on Edgehill Road was where officers from the police station round the corner congregated. It was run by a farmer who’d sold his land for housing; hence the name. It used to be simply The Bull.
As soon as he’d seen Brodie settled in his house and despatched Vickers to join her, Deacon began putting together a task force. He half-expected having to fight Superintendent Fuller over this, to justify using police resources on what might have seemed like personal business, but the station’s senior officer saw nothing personal about it. If a woman was being terrorised, her relationship with h...is head of CID was no reason to deny her help.MoreLess
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