‘Give us a fag, mate,’ Vetter said, looking amused. ‘Perhaps so, sir,’ lie said, ‘but – with respect, mind – I still think I know a swatch of the old whole cloth when I see one… or hear one.’ He was twenty-seven, and it was hardly his fault that he had been posted here from Muswell Hill to the north, or that Vetter, who was nearly twice his age, had spent his entire uneventful career in the quiet London backwater of Crouch End. But you’re new here.’įarnham sat a little straighter. ‘You don’t mean you believe any part of it? Go on, sir! Pull the other one!’ ‘It’ll go in the back file,’ Vetter agreed, and looked round for a cigarette. ‘She was American, wasn’t she?’ he said finally, as if that might explain most or all of the story she had told. ‘This one’ll look odd come morning light,’ he said. He looked at the typewriter and the stack of blank forms on the shelf beside it. PC Vetter closed his notebook, which he’d almost filled as the American woman’s strange, frenzied story poured out. London was asleep… but London never sleeps deeply, and its dreams are uneasy. Outside the Crouch End police station, Tottenham Lane was a small dead river. By the time the woman had finally gone, it was nearly two-thirty in the morning.
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