The Detective Wore Silk Drawers (2009)
The Detective Wore Silk Drawers
“They cut behind the few derelict buildings that fringed on the no man’s land of the river edge. Their arrival had already caused a stir in the neighbourhood. A hansom in Barge House Street was as rare as a porpoise upriver. Once it was established that the visitor was neither magistrate nor schoolmaster, a small train of curious boys hitched onto Cribb, with three or four muttering women at a discreet distance behind.
The object of their visit lay as the tide had deposited it, toes upwards ...in a small irregularity in the bank. Cribb turned abruptly on the children and ordered them back to the houses.
“You found this yourself?” he asked the old man.
“Yes. Not two hours back. Tide must have washed ’im up.”
“You didn’t touch him?”
“Nah. I wouldn’t do that. What’d I want to do that for? If ’e ’ad any money on ’im, I reckon the cove what lopped ’is head off ’ad that.”MoreLess
The object of their visit lay as the tide had deposited it, toes upwards ...in a small irregularity in the bank. Cribb turned abruptly on the children and ordered them back to the houses.
“You found this yourself?” he asked the old man.
“Yes. Not two hours back. Tide must have washed ’im up.”
“You didn’t touch him?”
“Nah. I wouldn’t do that. What’d I want to do that for? If ’e ’ad any money on ’im, I reckon the cove what lopped ’is head off ’ad that.”MoreLess
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