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I’ot out of his car and surveyed the iot his attention Two little pairs of eyes surveyed the scene in wide-eyed wonder, from the back of a three-storey flat They were soon joined by a woman with her curled hair in an abstract net, her face covered with bright blue mud, so that she resembled a de hily ‘He’s gone and wrecked Alice’s dustbin! There’ll be hell to pay, you wait and see!’

Lorne reached through the shattered , verified what he already knew about his suspect’s state of health As he did so, he could hear the dehbour on the telephone

As he waited for the scene-of-crime van to arrive, it belatedly occurred to hi eyes were studiously observing so in their bearing stung hi he realised how raphic representations of the deceased Archie Skinner, wise beyond their years, avatars of judge fro