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‘Attitude,’ said Fred ‘The gentleized Why piss off a nor member of the public?’
‘So ould have made you book him?’
‘If he’d said, “Haven’t you got anything better to do, officer?” Or worse, “Shouldn’t you be chasing some real cries?” Any of those and I would have booked hihter I had to cart off to the station and lock up for a couple of hours’
‘Did he get violent?’
‘No, far worse Told me he was a close friend of the co from him So I told hihing ‘Right,’ said Fred, ‘get back behind the tree Next time you can conduct the interview and I’ll observe’
Sir Julian Warwick QC sat at one end of the table, his head buried in the Daily Telegraph He muttered the occasional tut-tut, while his wife, seated at the other end, continued her daily battle with the Tiood day, Marjorie would have filled in the final clue before her husband rose from the table to leave for Lincoln’s Inn On a bad day, she would have to seek his advice, a service for which he usually charged a hundred pounds an hour He regularly reminded her that to date, she owed hi her up
Sir Julian had reached the leaders by the ti with the final clue He still wasn’t convinced that the death penalty should have been abolished, particularly when a police officer or a public servant was the victiraph He turned to the back page to find out how Blackheath rugby club had fared against Rich the es, as he considered the paper gave far too n that the nation was going to the dogs
‘Delightful picture of Charles and Diana in The Times,’ said Marjorie
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sp; ‘It will never last,’ said Julian as he rose from his place and walked to the other end of the table and, as he did every ed newspapers, so he could study the law reports on the train journey to London
‘Don’t forget the children are co down for lunch on Sunday,’ Marjorie reminded him
‘Has William passed his detective’s exam yet?’ he asked
‘As you well know, my dear, he isn’t allowed to take the exam until he’s completed two years on the beat, which won’t be for at least another six months’
‘If he’d listened to me, he would have been a qualified barrister by now’
‘And if you’d listened to hi up cri them off’