The Doomsday Machine (Horatio Lyle) by Catherine Webb

Author:Catherine Webb [Webb, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 2009-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Nothing ever happened on the Caledonian Road to give it distinction. Sometimes the English going to Scotland or the Scots coming to England rattled down the Caledonian Road, sometimes the odd red lady was caught selling her wares towards the place where the railway terminated at King’s Cross. Sometimes barges blocked each other on the canal, but these days there was less traffic on the waterway as it was so much easier to send freight by train. The hoot of the locomotive’s whistle and the distant church bells were the only distraction, or the occasional wagon carrying prison inmates towards Portsmouth and a different kind of confinement.

Theoretically, Lyle was a copper through and through. Once the criminal was caught, justice was justice, and if justice chose to put away the guilty in a prison like Pentonville, then all well and good. The law might not be a marvel, it might not work exceptionally well; but it was the law, universal and impartial, and everyone had to stick to it, otherwise what was the point?

Tonight, however, it was secretly glad to be able to bring something different to the top of the Caledonian Road.

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