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She&039;d eventually have to go to Pall Mall and report to Richard Jeperson, Chair of the Ruling Cabal He got a lie-in and the Sunday supple circular bed She risked spontaneous combustion It was ever thus

&039;Why was this place called Hanging Woods?&039; Bellaver asked, out of the blue

&039;Why d&039;you think?&039; she responded &039;They hanged people here&039;

&039;In a minute, you&039;ll be sorry they stopped&039;

&039;I&039;ve never been in favour of capital punishment&039;

&039;Good for you, Katie,&039; said Bellaver &039;Twenty years on the job and I&039;m in favour of capital punishment in schools&039;

The Super led her towards the trees More uniforers&039; regulation hat came with a practical black veil She darted birdlike looks about the park, quickened senses attracted to tiny sounds, scents and sights It was overwhels of a focus which would be handy in police work and offputting in her personal life She could spot a new pin in a lawn and a peroxide hair on a lapel

Geoff Brent, the warrave and useless He wore a 1961 cream mac to spite the fabber world of this end of the decade A sheet lay over so a nap

&039;What makes this one of yours?&039; she asked Bellaver

&039;It&039;s a vampire murder, ducks&039;

Flashbacks Whitechapel, 1888 Jack the Ripper France, 1918 The Bloody Red Baron Ro of vampire murders, she tended to trip over it She had to admit it looked suspicious

&039;Not that kind of va what she was thinking &039;The other kind Meet Carol Thatcher&039;

He nodded Griffin lifted the sheet

A young woman Fore-and-pink Mary Quant dress torn off the shoulder, purple-and-taupe Balenciaga tights shredded, one white Courreges go-go boot ed punctures The classic &039;Seal of Dracula&039;

Kate looked at Bellaver

&039;How long since ?&039;

&039;I knew you&039;d ask, so I checked out Edgar Lustgarten&039;s Big Book of British Murderers In London, this is the first one of these since the Blitz 1944 The Blackout Bloodsucker John George Haigh Remember him? Disposed of the drained delicti with sulphuric acid Guillotined 1949 Peculiar Cri made to look like a vampire murder Otherwise, there are rumours But we scotch ru those cases&039;

Kate knelt by the dead girl, Carol

&039;Vaht,&039; said the Super &039;We don&039;t need Edgar Bloodlustgarten to tell us that Vas "Couldn&039;t stand the wife&039;s nagging any longer so I shut her up" "He called et carried away and suck sohter, Katie I&039;ve seen too irlfriend&039;s cold&039;

She hadn&039;t been there herself, but dreaded the possibility The warm didn&039;t understand what a mouthful - even a taste - of blood was to a vaet rid of the body, cope with the guilt and carry on Kate caredaith it when the red thirst became the red mania Too many otherwise decent va on innocents She wasn&039;t immune She was only a hundred and five, seventy-nine years a vampire Her elder friend Genevieve confided that over the centuries she&039;d killed three people withoutto

&039;There are va to the subject &039;Proper i Bloodsucker Hog andDead They certainly kill people And use teeth and claws to do it But they kill because they want to or to prove a point, not because they need the blood Blood&039;s everywhere, Katie You can buy it in a Wimpy Bar Since they&039;re at each other&039;s throats all the time, vampire villains mostly kill other vaot between the Tears are not shed in B Division, truth be told, when the likes of Jack "the Bat" McVitie fetch up with tent-pegs through their ribs&039;

Griffin gathered up the sheet and ers took it away and folded it properly into a square

Kate had an iirl&039;s wounds

&039;This is what vampires used to do,&039; she said &039;BD Before Dracula&039;

&039;On the nose, Katie It&039;s new and old at the same time What youa bird off the street, bite her neck, suck her like an orange, chuck the peel in the bushes&039;

&039;He&039;ll do it again,&039; she said

&039;Or she,&039; said the WPC

&039;Good point, Rogers,&039; admitted Bellaver &039;Fe to the nub - yes, he or she will h did six before Inspector Hornleigh nabbed hiusted with the way her fangs sharpened and the need pricked in the back of her throat She knew this would be bad There were iain,&039; Bellaver said &039;In the va business, God help us Any tips?&039;

&039;Take early retireet a shit-proof sou&039;wester When Carol gets her picture in the papers, it&039;s going to start pouring&039;

From his face, Kate saw Bellaver had already worked that out