‘I thought they used virgins,’ Sergeant Wendy Gladstone said. She thought she had seen it all, but a naked man spreadeagled on a bare floor in a suburban house in London was a first for her.
Wendy surmised middle-class affluence, pagan worship, and human sacrifice. She had read fiction and watched the occasional late-night horror movie, but to be confronted by reality made her feel uneasy.
‘He might have been,’ Inspector Larry Hill said, responding to Wendy’s initial comment.
He had seen more of man’s depravity than his sergeant, but she thought his remark was flippant. Although Wendy knew, as any police officer did, especially in Homicide, that flippancy often defused the situation. It was for them to be dispassionately professional, not to be melancholy or disheartened by humanity's ability to inflict terrible actions against another.
Detective Chief Inspector Isaac Cook, the senior officer in Homicide at Challis Street Police Station, arrived within the hour. He took one look at the body and walked outside the house. 'It's a murder, that's all we need to know,' he said.
Genre: Mystery
Wendy surmised middle-class affluence, pagan worship, and human sacrifice. She had read fiction and watched the occasional late-night horror movie, but to be confronted by reality made her feel uneasy.
‘He might have been,’ Inspector Larry Hill said, responding to Wendy’s initial comment.
He had seen more of man’s depravity than his sergeant, but she thought his remark was flippant. Although Wendy knew, as any police officer did, especially in Homicide, that flippancy often defused the situation. It was for them to be dispassionately professional, not to be melancholy or disheartened by humanity's ability to inflict terrible actions against another.
Detective Chief Inspector Isaac Cook, the senior officer in Homicide at Challis Street Police Station, arrived within the hour. He took one look at the body and walked outside the house. 'It's a murder, that's all we need to know,' he said.
Genre: Mystery
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