Pyke 04 - The Detective Branch by Andrew Pepper

Author:Andrew Pepper [Pepper, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, London (England) - History - 1800-1950, Pyke (Fictitious Character: Pepper), Mystery & Detective, Pyke (Fictitious Character : Pepper), Fiction, General, Suspense, Historical, Traditional British, Mystery Fiction, Crime
ISBN: 9780753827680
Google: eolbPgAACAAJ
Amazon: 0753827689
Goodreads: 9806912
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 2011-05-31T22:00:00+00:00

As he watched her go, Pyke thought about what he’d just done, the awful humiliation he’d visited upon her and himself, and he wondered why, having hurt her once before, he had felt it appropriate to accost her in a public place and reveal himself to her, once again, in all his unthinking ugliness.

SIXTEEN

Two days after the funeral, Pyke returned to work at the Detective Branch. He’d been gone for almost ten days but somehow it felt longer. For him, it was as though the whole world had crumbled. Meanwhile, in terms of the investigation, little or no progress had been made. Hiley was still at large and the coroner’s verdict in the matter of Charles Hogarth’s death had not yet been overturned, although now it was hard to see how this might happen as Pyke had learned from Whicher that Hogarth’s body had been stolen from the family’s mausoleum in Kensington, apparently by resurrectionists. He had also found out that the coroner, and the porter who had discovered Hogarth’s body in his office on Gracechurch Street, were both missing and had been for several days. Pyke didn’t believe for a moment that resurrectionists had broken into the tomb, but without a shred of evidence to the contrary, he had no choice but to hold his tongue. He couldn’t even dispute the cause of death, at least not officially, because to do so would be to incriminate himself. Instead, at a meeting with Lockhart, Shaw, Wells and Whicher (who was the only one he had told about the crucifixion marks), Pyke told them they were now to treat Hogarth’s death as suspicious.

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