Too Much of Water (2015)
“Rushton had copies ready for them, and the three men pored over the details without speaking for a few minutes. Then Lambert said, ‘We knew she wasn’t drowned. She was strangled, probably manually, possibly by someone wearing gloves, though the days in the water make it difficult to be certain. This report suggests that in all probability she wasn’t killed near the river. She’d been lifted, they think, to judge by the slight bruising on her legs and beneath her arms. And there was some small ev...idence of hypostasis, even after three and a half days in the water.’ Rushton nodded eagerly. He had read the report three times whilst waiting for his superintendent to come in. ‘Yes. The blood seems to have settled in the buttocks and the backs of the thighs, implying that the corpse was left lying on its back. The pathologist says that she probably lay somewhere for an hour or two after death before she was consigned to the river. He doesn’t commit himself to how long and he says it can only be his informed opinion.MoreLess
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