Professor Cuttle, he was told, was under the weather, staff fearing he had caught a chill from too much time spent in the garden. ‘He had visitors the other day,’ the staff member informed Rebus. ‘They kept him outside longer than they should.’ ‘Some people, eh?’ Rebus sympathised, making a tutti...
The present inquiry looked like it had been going on forever. Abernethy seemed to favour the scene. He browsed among the computer screens, telephones, wall charts and photographs. Kilpatrick touched Rebus’s arm. ‘Keep an eye on him, will you? I’ll just go say hello to your Chief Super while I’m h...
Or, to give it its full title, the Hermitage of Braid, named after the Braid Burn which trickled through the narrow, bushy wilderness between Blackford Hill and Braid Hills Road. Across this road, the Hermitage became a golf course, its undulations cultivated and well-trodden, but on sunny weeken...
As a result, there was to be no more discussion of either topic within the walls of Alliance Investigative—not in his office, not in the corridors, not even in the elevators. Instead, Dulwater had to report, either by telephone or in person, to Allerdyce’s home.Allerdyce had always kept his offic...
‘Come on,’ I said, ‘let’s get busy. We’re not tourists any more.’Not that Bel had seen many of the sights of London, unless ‘sights’ was broad enough to encompass Tottenham and a couple of low-class restaurants. I listened at her door until I could hear her getting out of bed.‘I’ll meet you downs...
He always felt he was being judged by his fellow officers. He knew what they might be seeing, a guy close to retirement, a guy on his way to the scrapheap, a guy who should have done better. But Bob knew he was good at his job. The only reason he hadn’t been promoted was that he had made enemies....