– Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of the Copper Beeches New Scotland Yard sat at the end of Derby Street, on the east side of Parliament Street on the Victoria Embankment. The turreted building, in a Scottish design, was built on the foundation of what originally was going to be an opera house. Its granite façade was quarried, appropriately enough, by convicts at Dartmoor. Hale had been there dozens of times. Somehow, he reflected ruefully as he entered the building, it had looked different when he came there as a reporter rather than as a suspect in custody. Of the 140 offices in the building, forty of them belonged to the Criminal Investigation Division. The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Stanley Hopkins, had an office in one of the turrets overlooking the river. Senior officers, like Chief Inspector Henry Wiggins, had offices on the ground floor. The lower the rank of the inspector, the more flights of stairs he had to climb. Dennis Rollins’s office, Hale knew from his most recent visit to the building, was on the third floor in an interior office that didn’t even have a window onto the inside quadrangle.
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